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Members of the press pool board the silhouetted Air Force One before President Obama on Oct. 24, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The president began a two-day campaign blitz through eight states with stops in key battleground states Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia. (Associated Press)
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The Marine One helicopter, with President Obama aboard, lifts Oct. 23, 2012, from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, en route to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then onto campaign events in Iowa, Colorado, California and Nevada. (Associated Press)
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President Obama walks from the White House to Marine One on Oct. 24, 2012, en route to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then onto campaign events in Iowa, Colorado, California and Nevada. (Associated Press)
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President Obama points to supporters in the audience as he speaks Oct. 24, 2012, during a campaign event at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport, Iowa. The president began a two-day campaign blitz through eight states with stops in key battleground states Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle keeps watch Aug. 9, 2012, along the border fence in Nogales, Ariz. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A Guatemalan river-raft worker steers a group of Central American migrants journeying north to the U.S., across the Suchiate river on a makeshift raft at the Guatemala-Mexico border crossing in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on Sept. 28, 2012. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Aides bearing armfuls of papers arrive Oct. 10, 2012, on Capitol Hill with witnesses from the State Department for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing investigating the Sept. 11 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and other Americans. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, delivers his opening statement Oct. 10, 2012, on Capitol Hill during the committee's hearing on the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Charlene Lamb (center), deputy assistant secretary for international programs at the State Department's Bureau of Diplomat Security, testifies Oct. 10, 2012, on Capitol Hill before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing investigating the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and other Americans. She is joined by Eric Nordstrom (left), a regional security officer with the State Department, and Amb. Patrick Kennedy, under secretary for management at the State Department. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks Oct. 15, 2012, in Lima, Peru, after meeting Peru's President Ollanta Humala. Taking responsibility for security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya, where an attack by extremists last month killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, Clinton said that security at all of America's diplomatic missions abroad is her job, not that of the White House. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on as President Obama delivers a statement Sept. 12, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the White House on the death of Christopher Stevens, U.S. ambassador to Libya. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** White House workers walk on the roof of the White House on Sept. 12, 2012, after lowering the flag to half-staff for the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Ambassador Patrick Kennedy (right), under secretary for management at the State Department, answers questions Oct. 10, 2012, on Capitol Hill during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing investigating the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The attack resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and other Americans. From left are Kennedy; Charlene Lamb, deputy assistant secretary for international programs at the State Department's Bureau of Diplomat Security; Eric Nordstrom, a regional security officer with the State Department; and Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, a Utah National Guard Army Green Beret who was the top security official at the consulate in Libya. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Libyan military guards check one of the burned-out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2012, during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif to express sympathy for the death of J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and his colleagues in the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate. (Associated Press)
