Big questions remain: Where was the president that night? Why didn’t we send reinforcements during the fighting? What was the primary mission of the more than two dozen CIA-affiliated personnel in Benghazi? Why haven’t we captured or killed any of the attackers? And who were they?

Questions They Won’t Answer

Benghazi isn’t going away.

Nov 11, 2013 By STEPHEN F. HAYES and THOMAS JOSCELYN

       

When South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham threatened last week to place a hold in the Senate on all Obama administration nominations until the president and his advisers cooperate fully with investigations into the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, White House press secretary Jay Carney responded with a familiar accusation.

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“Let’s be clear that some Republicans are choosing to play politics with this for partisan purposes, and we find that unfortunate,” he said at a White House press briefing on October 28. Carney, in a we’ve-been-over-this-before tone of annoyance, ticked off numbers meant to show administration cooperation: 13 congressional hearings, 40 staff briefings, and “providing over 25,000 pages of documents.”

It’s been more than a year since four Americans were killed in Libya and more than six months since Carney dismissively declared that Benghazi “happened a long time ago.” Is he simply doing his job or does he really believe that Benghazi is a “phony scandal” trumped up by Republicans? Whatever the answer, Benghazi is not going away.

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