Graham asks for congressional testimony, presumably on C-Span or CNN, from agents who survived Benghazi and whose identities are classified: patriotism?
On Wednesday, Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell -- along with CIA officers who were at the agency's Benghazi base on the night of the attack -- testified at a classified hearing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In the closed hearing, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the proceedings, Morell was asked by Republican members about how the second wave of attackers knew to go to the CIA annex, which was a mile away from the diplomatic mission. Morell responded that at this point the CIA did not know whether the attackers had known the location of the annex or learned about it on the evening of the attack, according to these sources. [The Daily Beast, 5/24/13]
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CNN Reported That More CIA Employees Are Scheduled To Testify Before Congress On Benghazi Attack This November. According to CNN's own reporting, eyewitnesses to the Benghazi attacks will testify in another closed door session before the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight and Government Reform the week of November 11:
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In a letter to Graham ... [the State Department] also wrote that "because these survivors are potential witnesses in a terrorism prosecution, as well as law enforcement professionals who engage in security activities around the world including at high-threat posts, disclosure of their identities could put their lives, as well as those of their families and the people they protect, at increased risk." [FoxNews.com, 11/1/13]
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/11/03/cnn-forgets-benghazi-survivors-have-testified-b/196728
Fortunately, we have freedom of the press, so if the names of these agents and witnesses are published or stated in the media, our reporters have nothing to fear.
Let's apply the same principle to all who wish to inform the public in violation of the executive's classification authority.
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