Politics

STEVENS1.jpg

**FILE** U.S. envoy Chris Stevens speaks April 11, 2011, to local media at the Tibesty Hotel where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya. The U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (Associated Press)

Romney 2012_Lea.jpg

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes comments on the killing of U.S. diplomatic officials in Benghazi, Libya, while speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Romney 2012_Reps.jpg

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney arrives in Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Mideast Israel Iran_Reps.jpg

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan, Pool)

20120911-205614-pic-817866749.jpg

Mitt Romney said that the return of U.S. troops from abroad should not be an excuse to “hollow out our military.” The GOP presidential nominee spoke Tuesday at the National Guard Association Convention. (Associated Press)

20120911-204509-pic-204901538.jpg

Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin talks to firefighters Tuesday in Oak Creek, Wis. (Associated Press)

SEPT11_091120

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, during a congressional remembrance ceremony for the events of 9/11. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

SEPT11_091119

Presiden Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (left) and Gen. Martin Dempsey, bows his head at the Pentagon Memorial during a ceremony to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

SEPT11_091116

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, joined by members of the White House staff, pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of 9/11, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

SEPT11_091115

Ava Kathleen Schmoelzer, 7, from Stamford, Conn., places flowers for her aunt on the wall overlooking the South Tower reflecting pool on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center 2. (AP Photo/Timothy A. Clary, Pool)