Corker Headed to Middle East Looking for Answers on Benghazi Attack

Tennessee Senator Bob Corker denies trying to score political points over the deadly consulate attack in Libya. Corker has been a regular guest on national news programs calling the Obama Administration’s reaction “bizarre.”

Corker sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and could even become the ranking Republican after the November elections. When he asks questions of the State Department, he says he almost always gets answers, even if he has to keep them to himself.

So the lack of information surrounding the killing of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, Corker calls “strange.” He’s headed to the region later this week.

“Maybe when I’ve returned from the Middle East I’ll have a better sense of what’s happened here. And it may just be that Libya has turned into a failed state and maybe it’s just that that the administration doesn’t want to discuss.”

Two Republican leaders of a House committee say diplomats made repeated requests for more security at the consulate in Benghazi, but were denied. They plan on holding a hearing next week.