{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20131123004239/http://wolf.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=34&itemid=2328", "Wolf Statement On Need For Answers About Benghazi", "2013-11-07", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "VA", "Frank Wolf", "W000672", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "Contact: Jill Shatzen   (202) 225-5136  WOLF STATEMENT ON NEED FOR ANSWERS ABOUT BENGHAZI  Washington, D.C. (November 7, 2013) \u2013 Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) today released the following statement in response to reports by CNN and The Daily Beast that a member of the House Intelligence Committee is publicly speaking out on the need to get more answers about what happened in Benghazi:  \u201cI have read the letter Rep. Devin Nunes wrote Speaker Boehner yesterday \u2018to outline the areas that have the most critical outstanding questions\u2019 about what happened in Benghazi.\u00a0 It is particularly noteworthy that Rep. Nunes is a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee.\u00a0 His letter reaffirms many of the same questions I have been asking for months on the House floor and in letters to Speaker Boehner.\u00a0 We need to get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi.\u00a0 Four Americans were killed.\u00a0 No one has been held accountable for the intelligence failures leading up to the attack.\u00a0 No one has said what the CIA was doing in Benghazi.\u00a0 None of the terrorists have been brought to justice.\u00a0 It has been 14 months since the attack and, as a recent bipartisan poll showed, 63 percent of the American people believe the Obama Administration is covering up the facts on what happened that night.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  \u201cI was pleased to read that Rep. Nunes is open to considering \u2018new measures to complete the investigation and synthesize the information obtained by the Intelligence Committee and the other committees investigating the Benghazi attack\u2019 if questions remain unanswered.\u00a0  I continue to believe the best way to get answers is to create a House Select Committee, building on the work already done by the five committees presently examining the events of that night.\u00a0 Select committees were used for Watergate and Iran-contra.\u00a0 There is no reason why one shouldn\u2019t be used for Benghazi, where a U.S. Ambassador was killed along with three other Americans.\u00a0 Whatever is done must be done in the open.\u00a0 Public accountability is a must.\u00a0 Public hearing also would help restore trust in government.\u00a0 There is nothing so secretive about a terrorist attack, and the events leading up to one, that American people cannot \u2013 and should not \u2013 know.\u201d  EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Wolf\u2019s measure, H. Res. 36, to establish a House Select Committee on Benghazi, presently has 178 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.\u00a0 The poll mention above also found that 62 percent of voters say it\u2019s important for Congress to create a special committee to get the truth about Benghazi.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20131123004239/http://wolf.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=34&itemid=2328"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8892053738236427, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}