Diplomatic Security Funding
On December 20, 2012, both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee heard from State Department officials on the need for additional funding to protect diplomats abroad in the wake of the September attack on the U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya. The officials testified that they intended to seek increased funding to cover additional personnel, supplies, construction, and technological enhancements to improve security, as recommended by the State Department Accountability Review Board (ARB), the panel charged with investigating the attack. The ARB called on Congress to restore to “full capacity” the Capital Security Cost Sharing Program,…
