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Ty Woods' Dad Seeks Benghazi Answers On Capitol Hill

Benghazi: As new whistle-blowers emerge and Congress tells CIA staffers to lawyer up, a grieving father demands to know how and why his son died and why no one in the administration wants to talk to him.


As long as we're on the subject of finding the terrorists responsible for killing U.S. citizens on American soil, the father of a former Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi last September was on Capitol Hill Wednesday to urge support of a special committee to investigate the attacks.


As we search for answers on Boston, we still have no real answers on Benghazi seven months after the terrorist attack on our diplomatic mission there.


Charles Woods and several members of Congress held a press conference in an effort to highlight what they say is the Obama administration's failure to fully disclose the circumstances that led to the deaths of four Americans, including Ty Woods and U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.


The elder Woods said he is still waiting for real answers from the White House and the State Department.


"We don't just want another paper report," Woods said. "We want people who were on the ground" to testify and explain "why they failed to provide support and protection" to Tyrone and others. "This is extraordinary and we need to know ... who was it that gave the order to stand down," Woods said.


Woods' appearance on Capitol Hill comes less than a week after the mother of another Benghazi victim, Sean Smith, penned a frustrated letter to Congress about the death of her son.


"When I was in Washington, D.C., at the reception of the caskets, I asked for and received promises from President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, V.P. Biden and several other dignitaries in attendance. They all looked me directly in the eyes and promised they would find out (what happened in Benghazi)," wrote Patricia Smith. "I got only one call from a clerk about a month later quoting from the time line, which I already had."


Earlier on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry was asked about Benghazi at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing.


"We have made request after request about, for example, just to get the list of the names of the people who were evacuated from Benghazi, and we haven't even gotten that, much less some of the important questions," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., told Kerry.


As we've written, the Benghazi survivors have in effect been held incommunicado by their own government.


Secretary Kerry responded that he does not "think anybody lied to anybody," urging lawmakers to move past the issue, stopping short of his predecessor, Hillary Clinton's, indignant response to similar questions, asking what does it matter at this point.


"We got a lot more important things to move on to and get done," Kerry said.


We have documented the endless stream of lies by the Obama administration on Benghazi as has CBS' Sharyl Attkisson who reports that "multiple new whistle-blowers are privately speaking to investigators with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee regarding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya."


As a result of these contacts, letters were sent to the legal offices of the CIA, State Department and Defense Department.


According to The Hill, which obtained a copy, the letters from Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., advises, "Some witnesses may be required to retain personal counsel to represent them before the committee and in the event the agency subsequently retaliates against them for cooperating with the committee's investigation."


As both Boston and Benghazi demonstrate, the war on terror is not over. Both are terror attacks committed against U.S. citizens on American soil, we need answers on both, as do Charles Woods and Patricia Smith.