syria and iraq about 500 have come back and also isis is training tunisians in the eastern part of libya around benghazi and now tunisian security officials are saying that some of the perpetrators and some of the terror cell received training in benghazi region. it could be isis recruited and trained them there in eastern libya. they re not just training grounds in syria and iraq where we ve been talking about it for months and months but now libya is training territory for isis. absolutely. just on the southern shore of the mediterranean just a few hundred miles away from europe. parts of tunisia are just a few dozen miles away from the southern most part of europe off the southern coast of sicily. about 25 miles away from tunisia. isis is on the doorstep of europe. it s concerning from the european point of view.
employees who were in benghazi as that attack unfolded are angry that the ceo s inspector general s office never conducted an investigation into what happen that night. adam housely getting reaction of someone on the ground the night of the attack and adam, pretty upset, savannah. there s a lot of people upset, getting information in, you might imagine, fast and furious, that the only people on the ground in benghazi but other parts of libya and back in d.c. operativey to the information and they re upset with a number of things being said. according to morell s testimony, he s basically ignoring the men on the ground that night and what they saw and felt. also, he want to know, the quote was this, why did he not talk to us directly? he would have had to speculate if he was just talking to us directly. that s the quote. he wouldn t have had to speculate if he just talked to us directly. this goes along with the line phs or reporting that continues
okay? and that upsets me and i think it should upset you. that s the way they feel. if that s the way they feel it upsets me. so here s another problem with this. as it relates to the personnel, so the cia personnel, they have the right to make a complaint with the oig. uh-huh. right? there were oig complaints filed as related to these benghazi attacks, weren t there? i m not aware. you re not aware that there, that there were complaints filed to the oig? jon: well the fireworks continue on capitol hill. congressman devin nunez of california there, talking with mike morell, the former cia director, about what happened the night of the benghazi attacks. a night when apparently cia officials on the ground in benghazi said this was not caused by some kind of a
responsible for those protests because they wrongly, knowingly blamed this attack on a protest about a movie and it made the movie famous and sparked violence. adam housely has done a fair amount of reporting on this and what happened that night. he is talking this morning as the testimony has been underway, he is talking with someone on the ground in libya that night, probably in benghazi and this person says why did he, meaning michael morell , not ask us who were there directly. analyst knew it was a terror attack within 15-20 minutes. i guess that is a good question, lin. if the proceeds you might get some of the answers on
new on east coast, tough questions with capitol hill for a man at the center of the benghazi investigation at least for today. welcome to this hour. i m jenna lee. i m john scott. the former acting director of the ceo, mike morrell testifying on capitol hill right now about his response to the benghazi attack. he is accused of playing down reports from the ceo s top officer on the ground that there actually was no protest before that deadly terror attack on the u son sliu.s. consulate in liby. four americans including our ambassador were murdered in the benghazi attack. stevens had requested additional security in the months ahead of the attack. mr. morell was asked why if he knew references to al qaeda were taken out of the obama administration s talking point did he not say anything. the time i did not know. but to be fair and in