Washington – Republican Sen. Bob Corker got into a heated exchange Thursday over who is to blame for the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Libya, after a State Department witness and Democratic senator suggested that inadequate funding was partly responsible for insufficient security in the run-up to the attack.

“This is not about the money,” Corker, R-Tenn., said at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, the first since a report was released finding "systemic failures" at the department before the attack. “I want to know why you did not ask for the resources in Benghazi. You were aware of the security issues there. We’ve read the cables.”

He added, “If you had safety concerns, why didn’t you ask for money?”

Corker saved his harshest comments for Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides.

“We never did a top-to-bottom review so we have no idea if the State Department is using its money wisely,” Corker said. “I cannot imagine sending out folks to Benghazi if we did not have adequate security for them. So my question, again, is why? Why did we do it?”

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