So Just Who Knew The CIA Was In Benghazi?
Statement
Washington, D.C. (January 28, 2014) -- Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), author of legislation to create a Select Committee on Benghazi, today issued the following statement in response to comments by the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee that she was unaware of the CIA annex in Benghazi prior to the September 2012 attack:
"Breitbart today reported that Senator Feinstein was unaware of the CIA annex in Benghazi before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2012. Her comments come on the heels of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on Benghazi that neither AFRICOM nor its commander knew the CIA was in Benghazi.
"If Congress didn't know and AFRICOM and its commander didn't know, then who did? Was the annex created at the direction of the White House? And if so, just who in the White House was coordinating the operation?
"It's time to find out who stood up the annex and what was going on there. It's time for a Select Committee to break down jurisdictional barriers, hold public hearings and subpoena witnesses, including senior staff at the Defense Department, State Department, CIA and the White House.
"To put this in perspective, just yesterday New Jersey's Senate and Assembly merged their separate inquiries into the George Washington Bridge controversy to form a unified select investigative committee. In comparison, nearly 17 months after the Benghazi attacks, congressional efforts to investigate this terrorist attack -- where four Americans died, including the first sitting ambassador in 40 years, and many other were wounded -- are still fragmented and no one has been held accountable. Don't we owe it to the families to do better?"
Wolf's measure to establish a House Select Committee on Benghazi, H. Res. 36, presently has 181 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.
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