Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is not finished with his investigation into events surrounding the Benghazi scandal. He has issued subpoenas to 4 officials in the State Department who may have direct knowledge of events and that the department has refused to allow to testify.
                            
                            The Hill:
In a sharply worded letter to  Secretary of State John Kerry, Issa wrote that State chief of staff  David Wade has been uncooperative since being first approached in  mid-May with the request to make 13 State Department personnel available for depositions.
"I  am concerned that waiting weeks or months while the Department prepares  witnesses to be interviewed creates the risk that their testimony will  have been rehearsed or coached," Issa wrote. "The Department has left me  with no alternative but to issue subpoenas to compel testimony from  these important witnesses."
                            The witnesses work in two bureaus that  were singled out for criticism in the department's independent audit of  security lapses at the U.S. mission.
The newly deposed individuals are Eric Boswell, the Bureau of Diplomatic  Security's former assistant secretary and its former principal deputy  assistant secretary; Scott Bultrowicz, the director of the Diplomatic  Security Service; and Elizabeth Dibble and Elizabeth Jones, the former  principal deputy assistant secretary and the acting assistant secretary  at the Bureau Near Eastern Affairs, respectively.
                    Issa has  already deposed the two co-authors of last year's Accountability Review  Board (ARB) investigation into the attack that killed Ambassador  Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. 
Boswell resigned  from his position after the ARB faulted "systemic failures and  leadership and management deficiencies" in the two bureaus but remains  with the department. 
 
The State Department has already been dragging its heels in answering questions from Issa so it's not surprising that they would take their own sweet time in responding to his request for witnesses. It seems that the 4 individuals would have a pretty good idea of how our diplomatic outpost was left virtually defenseless, so State could hardly claim that this is some kind of fishing expedition by Issa.
Hearings featuring the witnesses subpoened have not been scheduled yet.