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STORY: The U.S. Congress' special Select Committee on Benghazi held its first hearing Wednesday and focused its attention on the safety of U.S. diplomats around the globe - as it pledged to take an impartial and non-political look at lingering concerns surrounding the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that left four Americans dead.
"Given the gravity of the issues at hand, I would rather run the risk of answering a question twice than run the risk of not answering it once, committee chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-SC said.
The top Democrat on the panel says it's a good time for change. "Too often over the past two years, the Congressional investigation into what happened in Benghazi has evolved into unseemly partisanship. We are better than that. Today we have an opportunity to focus on reform. How can we learn from the past to make things better in the future?" Rep. Elijah Cummings, R-MD said.
Witnesses reported on the ch
