Seven seconds of total silence.
The nation's top intelligence officials have answered the question
countless times over the past year and a half, but they seemed stumped
during a House hearing Tuesday when a Florida congressman asked them one
more time: "Can anybody at the table tell us when somebody will be held
responsible for the murders in Benghazi?"
For seven seconds, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA
director John Brennan, Defense Intelligence Agency director Michael
Flynn, National Counterterrorism Center director Matt Olsen and FBI
director James Comey sat quietly – each one seemingly waiting for one of
the others to rescue them from a question for which they have no easy
answer, regarding a tragedy that almost since the outset has been
wrapped in political partisanship.
After the seven seconds of silence prompted by Florida Republican Rep.
Jeff Miller's question, FBI director Comey leaned into the microphone.
"What I can tell you, Congressman, is that this is a top priority of the
FBI," he said. "We've made progress on the matter. I'm not at liberty
to talk about the details of that progress. It's a difficult
investigation, but one we've invested a lot of resources in and one that
we've made headway on."
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