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Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell, testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, about the terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Ex-CIA leader Morell denies role in Benghazi ‘cover-up’ during heated Hill hearing

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell is slated to testify on Wednesday on a series of secure video teleconferences during the days immediately following the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks. (Associated Press)

Libya station chief gives perspective on TV talking points

The Washington Times

** FILE ** Then-Deputy CIA Director Michael J. Morell received an email dated Sept. 15, 2012, from the Libya station chief saying that the Benghazi attack was "not an escalation of protests." (Associated Press)

CIA ignored station chief in Libya when creating talking points on Benghazi

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This Sept, 14, 2012 file photo shows a Libyan military guard standing in front of one of the U.S. Consulate's burnt out buildings during the visit of President Mohammed el-Megarif, to the U.S. Consulate to express sympathy for the death of the American ambassador, Chris Stevens and his colleagues in the deadly attack on the Consulate. The Pentagon says Congress’ multiple investigations of the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, have cost the department millions of dollars and thousands of hours of personnel time. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Pentagon says Benghazi probes cost millions

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

Libya releases crew of renegade oil tanker

By ESAM MOHAMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it’s Tripoli’s biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine guns to sell for thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File)

Libya detains crew of renegade oil tanker

By ESAM MOHAMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it’s Tripoli’s biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine guns to sell for thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File)

Libya’s guns free-for-all fuels region’s turmoil

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it’s Tripoli’s biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine guns to sell for thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File)

Libyan official: US navy hands oil tanker to Libya

By ESAM MOHAMED - Associated Press

The Libyan parliament voted to oust Prime Minister Ali Zeidan last week over anger at the failure to stop rebels from independently exporting oil. (Associated Press)

Pentagon: Libya to get seized tanker within days

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

AP source: Army team to begin Libyan training prep

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

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By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The Libyan parliament voted to oust Prime Minister Ali Zeidan last week over anger at the failure to stop rebels from independently exporting oil. (Associated Press)

SEALs’ tanker seizure highlights Libyan power wrangling over oil, power

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

(U.S. Navy)

In covert operation, Navy SEALS take control of tanker carrying stolen oil from Libya

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Libya tanker seized by US Navy SEALs forces

By ESAM MOHAMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, then Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan speaks to the media during a press conference in Rabat, Morocco. Zidan, ousted prime minister, has left the country despite a ban on travel, hours after parliament removed him from office in a no-confidence vote. In Malta, Libya's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told state-owned television that Zidan had made a brief stop-over on the Mediterranean island late on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, before traveling on. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)

Libya’s ousted PM calls his removal invalid

Associated Press

U.N. envoy to Libya Tarek Mitri, right, and Libya Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdulaziz share a word prior to meeting the media at the end of the Conference on International Support to Libya in Rome Thursday March 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Libyan prime minister ousted by parliament

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

Libya says its forces now near oil tanker

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LYONS: Benghazi was a planned tragedy

By James A. Lyons

Tunisian investigators examine the site of a Libyan Antonov 26 aircraft that crashed near the village of Benyanou at 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Tunis, the capital, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. A medical flight from Libya crashed in a field near Tunis in the early hours of Friday morning, killing all 11 Libyans on board, Tunisia's civil defense said. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

Medical flight crashes in Tunisia, 11 Libyans die

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

Libya says all chemical weapons destroyed

By ESAM MOHAMED - Associated Press