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'No one lied' about Benghazi attack, Kerry vows

Agence France-PresseApril 17, 2013 14:16

US Secretary of State John Kerry pledged Wednesday that nobody had lied about last year's attack on a US mission in Libya that killed four Americans, and urged US lawmakers to move on. The former senator found the tables turned as he was grilled about the hot-button issue by his old congressional colleagues during his defense of the State Department's 2014 budget request before the House foreign affairs committee.

UPDATE 1-Obama tapped Kerry for secretary of state before Rice quit -report

Thomson ReutersFebruary 1, 2013 20:15

(Updates with Kerry statement, paragraphs 4-7) WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama offered Senator John Kerry the job of secretary of state a week before Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, withdrew her name from contention, the Boston Globe reported on Friday. "He called me, actually a week before Susan got out of the thing," Kerry told the newspaper, offering a timeline earlier than previously reported.

Obama tapped Kerry for secretary of state before Rice quit - report

Thomson ReutersFebruary 1, 2013 16:31

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama offered Senator John Kerry the job of secretary of state a week before Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, withdrew her name from contention, the Boston Globe reported on Friday. "He called me, actually a week before Susan got out of the thing," Kerry told the newspaper, offering a timeline earlier than previously reported.