GOP Rep: Benghazi not a 'complete cover-up'
A Republican member of Congress in charge of investigating the Benghazi attacks in which four Americans were killed said Monday that questions remain about what happened that night but he does not think the Obama administration formulated a "complete cover-up."
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Georgia, chair of a House Intelligence subcommittee, said incompetence is the likely culprit. "I don't think they knew what they were doing," he said.various arms
of government involved -- the State Department and intelligence agencies
-- "got their communications mixed up."
I think what ended up
happening, you had the State Department trying to tell one story and you
had the security, the intelligence community that may have been trying
to sell another story,
Westmoreland's
subcommittee interviewed five CIA contractors who were at the compound
that night. It was the first time Congress had spoken to people present
at the compound.
More than a year after
the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, questions still linger as
to what led to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other
Americans. The House Intelligence Committee has held 15 hearings on the
attacks
In the days following the
September 11, 2012, attacks, the Obama administration said the incident
was not a planned attack but was a protest turned violent. That story
quickly unraveled and the administration has been accused of a cover-up.
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