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House Panel: White House 'Stonewalling' on Benghazi

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A special House committee is investigating what it calls "White House stone-walling" on the September 11, 2012 assault on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.

The panel has subpoenaed Secretary of State John Kerry to testify in a hearing later this month.

In a letter to Kerry, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said the State Department has shown a "disturbing disregard" for its legal obligations to Congress.

Issa warned Kerry the actions could "constitute a criminal offense."

The news comes as recently released emails showed the administration withheld documents from congressional investigators.

"If it were up to the White House, you would have never known about this email," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a weekend interview with CBS' "Face the Nation."

"Congress subpoenaed all documents related to Benghazi in August, so 20 months later they're hiding things," he charged. "And when they say this email doesn't matter, these are the same people that tried to hide it."

"And what was the purpose of this email?" Graham continued. "To protect the White House politically from the damage that could have been done from the truth coming out about Benghazi six, seven weeks before the election."

The State Department noted, however, that it ordered an independent review following the attack.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the agency called Republican claims of stone-walling "just false."

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