The documents released were part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's ongoing investigation into the September assault on the Benghazi compound that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Republicans have accused the administration of failing to properly secure the compound and later misleading the public about what happened in the attack.
But this past Friday, the oversight committee, on which Chaffetz sits, came under stern rebuke from the State Department for its decision to make public more than 100 pages of internal government cables and other documents relating to the Libya attack. State Department officials told Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin, who first reported on the controversy, that the documents, while not classified, contained sensitive information, including the names of Libyan human rights activists and others who had worked with the U.S. government -- and whose names were not redacted by the committee.
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