A State Department official told MailOnline on Tuesday that after Secretary of State John Kerry took over from former Secretary Hillary Clinton, the four employees were placed on leave in order to avoid the appearance of favoritism after Kerry inherited the Benghazi mess.
But their reinstatement means that no one at State has been held accountable for failing to prevent the attack, which claimed the lives of four Americans including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
Rep Darrell Issa, a feisty California Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee, accused the State Department on Tuesday of dragging its feet and failing to investigate what happened in Libya.
'Obama administration officials repeatedly promised the families of victims and the American people that officials responsible for security failures would be held accountable,' Issa recalled in a statement.
'Instead of accountability, the State Department offered a charade that included false reports of firings and resignations and now ends in a game of musical chairs where no one misses a single day on the State Department payroll.'
'It is now clear that the personnel actions taken by the Department in response to the Benghazi terrorist attacks was more of a public relations strategy than a measured response to a failure in leadership.'
Issa pointed to a December 2012 report issued by a State Department Accountability Review Board before Kerry was named to replace Clinton. That board, he said, never interviewed the four employees who were edtermined to be at fault.
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