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WASHINGTON (AP) - A State Department audit has found that an investigation of the deadly attack on the Benghazi, Libya diplomatic post was unbiased. But it says weaknesses persist in how the U.S. identifies threats overseas.
The assessment by the Accountability Review Board covers the Benghazi review chaired by former Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, which GOP members of Congress have criticized as lacking independence.
The inspector general says the process is "without bias," but criticized the State Department's risk management and incomplete implementation of security recommendations after previous embassy and consulate attacks.
The audit does say that progress has been made since Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012.
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