US quietly offers bounties for Benghazi attackers
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Friday that it has been quietly offering rewards since January of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of any person involved in last year's attack on a US diplomatic compound in Libya.
In a letter sent to lawmakers on Friday, the department said the rewards were not advertised on its "Rewards for Justice" website or posters or matchbooks as is normally done because of security issues around the ongoing investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the mission in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
A State Department official familiar with the letter to Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, acknowledged that it's unusual not to publicize offers of rewards, but said investigators have other ways of making sure the information is known "as needed." In the course of the probe, investigators have made it known to individuals that cash is available for those coming forward with actionable information.
The official said the rewards have been in place since Jan. 7. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the private correspondence and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Anyone who looks at the facts know that when the Republicons slashed the State Dept. security budget, they set the wheels in motion for the Benghazi tragedy. The Republicons are fully to blame -- and have been madly trying to weasel out of it ever since.
