The Obama administration has been accused of behaving 'like a bunch of cowards' after 19 embassies were closed in the wake of the Al Qaeda terror alert.
Louis Gohmert, a Republican congressman from Texas, recalled the September 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton famously suggested in a Senate hearing that it was largely irrelevant whether the attack was the result of a terrorist plot or - as the administration initially claimed - an outgrowth of a spontaneous anti-U.S. protest.
'It brings us back to the question that Hillary Clinton asked: "What difference does it make at this point?"' Gohmert said.
'The difference it makes,' he said, 'is that If you will bother to find out exactly what went wrong, why you didn't have security where you needed it, where you need security to shore up, what you can do to make sure that doesn't happen again, you don't have to close your embassies like a bunch of cowards that go running away.'
Some observers fear that the embassy closures are an over-compensation for the lax security in Benghazi where inadequate protection was in place despite warnings about the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Meanwhile, conservatives on Capitol Hill have speculated that responding to al-Qaeda by shuttering diplomatic facilities hands a tactical victory to the terror organization
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Texas Rep. Ted Poe, who chairs the House’s terrorism and nonproliferation subcommittee, told Foreign Policy magazine on Friday that the embassy closures are appear to be a post-Benghazi overreaction.
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