Staffers at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. held their own private ceremony Wednesday to commemorate the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya after finding out the agency would not be organizing a formal, official memorial service…

A State Department staffer who worked with Stevens in Libya and asked not to be named told TPM there were about 20 to 25 staffers at the memorial. The informal gathering was put together after staffers inquired and learned the department would not be holding an official event to mark the anniversary…

Neither Secretary of State John Kerry nor former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who led the department when the attack took place, were invited to the small gathering. The staffer said only those who had worked in Libya received invites: “It was solely people who had been in Libya with Chris.”