Wolf Statement On Need For Answers About Benghazi

Statement

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) today released the following statement in response to reports by CNN and The Daily Beast that a member of the House Intelligence Committee is publicly speaking out on the need to get more answers about what happened in Benghazi:

"I have read the letter Rep. Devin Nunes wrote Speaker Boehner yesterday "to outline the areas that have the most critical outstanding questions' about what happened in Benghazi. It is particularly noteworthy that Rep. Nunes is a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee. His letter reaffirms many of the same questions I have been asking for months on the House floor and in letters to Speaker Boehner. We need to get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi. Four Americans were killed. No one has been held accountable for the intelligence failures leading up to the attack. No one has said what the CIA was doing in Benghazi. None of the terrorists have been brought to justice. It has been 14 months since the attack and, as a recent bipartisan poll showed, 63 percent of the American people believe the Obama Administration is covering up the facts on what happened that night.

"I was pleased to read that Rep. Nunes is open to considering "new measures to complete the investigation and synthesize the information obtained by the Intelligence Committee and the other committees investigating the Benghazi attack' if questions remain unanswered.

I continue to believe the best way to get answers is to create a House Select Committee, building on the work already done by the five committees presently examining the events of that night. Select committees were used for Watergate and Iran-contra. There is no reason why one shouldn't be used for Benghazi, where a U.S. Ambassador was killed along with three other Americans. Whatever is done must be done in the open. Public accountability is a must. Public hearing also would help restore trust in government. There is nothing so secretive about a terrorist attack, and the events leading up to one, that American people cannot -- and should not -- know."

EDITOR'S NOTE: Wolf's measure, H. Res. 36, to establish a House Select Committee on Benghazi, presently has 178 cosponsors and has been endorsed by The American Legion, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, respected national security leaders, like former Attorney General Mukasey as well as some of the family members of the Benghazi victims. The poll mention above also found that 62 percent of voters say it's important for Congress to create a special committee to get the truth about Benghazi.

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