Three State Dept. officials resign after scathing Benghazi probe, news reports say The State Department's chief of security and two other officials have resigned from their positions, the Associated Press and CNN are reporting, following an independent investigation of the fatal attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya that found that "grossly" inadequate security and reliance on local militias left U.S. personnel vulnerable. Unidentified administration officials told AP and CNN that that Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, and Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary responsible for embassy security, have stepped down. The third official who resigned worked for the bureau of Near East Affairs, but wasn't immediately identified, AP and CNN said. Document: Sec. Clinton's letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee The 27-year-old Pravda reporter writes about what makes America's sports culture unusual. The economic miracle of the 1960s and 1970s made the country one of the world's most advanced, but Korean women have been, in many ways, left behind. Jason Rezaian Ali Khamenei would be just the latest Iranian to break the ban on accessing the social networking site. True to the precedent of the Arab Spring, social media users in the Middle East discuss politics and religion far more online than their Western counterparts do. Read the full unclassified report here Boswell, a retired career foreign service officer, was assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security from 1996 to 1998, during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and again as part of the administration of President George W. Bush in 2008. He remained in the job when President Obama took office. For several years after he initially retired from government in 1998, he worked as an administrator for the Pan American Health Organization. In 2005, Boswell began a three-year stint as assistant deputy director for security in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for development of security policies throughout the intelligence community. Lamb, Boswell's deputy in charge of international programs, drew the lion's share of criticism from lawmakers during hearings on Benghazi security held in October. It was Lamb, according to testimony, who denied requests from the U.S. Embassy inTripoli for an extension of temporary security forces that were withdrawn in the months prior to the Benghazi attack. The review of the assault on the mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans faulted systemic failures of leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus of the State Department, according to an unclassified version posted on the department's Web site Tuesday night.