REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WASHINGTON - The FBI announced Wednesday that it is seeking information on three people who were on the grounds of the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, when it was attacked last year. The bureau posted photographs of the three people and said they may be able to provide information to help in the investigation of the attack.
"We need your help to solve this crime," the FBI said in releasing the photographs.
The attack on the Benghazi compound on Sept. 11, 2012, killed the US ambassador and three other Americans. In a posting on the FBI's website, the law enforcement agency urged anyone with information to text or e-mail or to submit information confidentially to the FBI.
Questions at the Congress
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are continuing to pepper the Obama administration with questions about the attack.
Although an independent review board has blamed inadequate security at the compound on senior management and leadership failures at the State Department, some Republican lawmakers have suggested that the Democratic administration is trying to cover up more serious deficiencies or negligence before, during and after the attack.
On Tuesday, the issue surfaced at a White House news conference when President Barack Obama was asked about allegations that his administration was preventing whistle-blowers from testifying before Congress about the incident. Obama pleaded ignorance, but Secretary of State John Kerry and his staff denied any impropriety and vowed that all questions would be answered.
A clearly exasperated Kerry complained during a separate news conference Tuesday about "an enormous amount of misinformation out there" about the Benghazi attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the US.
"We have to demythologize this issue and certainly depoliticize it," Kerry told reporters at the State Department. "The American people deserve answers. I'm determined that this will be an accountable and open State Department as it has been in the past, and we will continue to do that, and we will provide answers."
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