Kerry Picket:
Upon the release of the Senate Select Committee Report on Benghazi Wednesday, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) released a statement asking why the report did not include any reason as to why the CIA was in Benghazi, Libya, in the first place.
Wolf says:
Perhaps the most telling part of the report is in the ‘additional views’ section, which points out that ‘important questions remain unanswered as a direct result of the Obama Administration’s failure to provide the committee with access to necessary documents and witnesses.’ This is unacceptable.
The report also fails to even broach the subject of just what the CIA was doing Benghazi. Amazingly, it said that while some in the Department of Defense may have known of the CIA facility, neither AFRICOM nor its Commander ‘were aware of an annex in Benghazi, Libya.’
We are never going to get all the answers to what happened that night until there is a House Select Committee that can reach across jurisdictional boundaries, compel testimony and documents that the administration continues to withhold from the Congress and protect those who may want to testify about the events of that evening.
Only members of Congress’s “Super 8” may know why the CIA annex was in Benghazi and two of those members, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), are both on the Committee that released the report today. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), another member of the Super 8, would not tell Breitbart News in September if she was aware of the CIA annex in Benghazi prior to the attack, saying:
