United States House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi was created after Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Boehner , on May 2 , 2014 , proposed that a House select committee would be formed to further investigate the Benghazi attack on September 11 , 2012 . During that event , the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi , Libya was attacked , resulting in the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to that country , J. Christopher Stevens , and three other Americans
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