ABC: Security concerns keep FBI from scene of ambassador's murderMore than two weeks after militants killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans at a diplomatic mission in Libya, FBI investigators have not gone into the city where the attack took place due to security concerns, a federal law enforcement official said today, even if such concerns haven't stopped journalists from operating freely in the same city.
The FBI says on its website that the bureau "plays a critical role" in any response to major incidents abroad involving Americans. The bureau said it works with the State Department and must obtain permission from any host country to conduct a foreign investigation.
The FBI declined to comment on the failure to reach the crime scene, which was first reported by CNN, and both the State Department and the White House directed all questions about the investigation to the bureau.
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CNN: 15 days after Benghazi attack, FBI still investigating from afar
"They had difficulty, and we understand there was some bureaucratic infighting between the FBI and Justice Department on the one hand, and the State Department on the other, and so it took them longer than they would have liked to get into country. They've now gotten there. But they still are unable to get permission to go to Benghazi."
FBI agents have made a request through the U.S. State Department for the crime scene to be secured...but that has not happened...The FBI team has conducted interviews of State Department and U.S. government personnel who were in Libya at the time of the attack...but the FBI's request to directly question individuals who Libyan authorities have in custody was denied.
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UK Daily Mail:
[September 20th,] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that an FBI team had reached Libya earlier in the week.
What is known: FBI investigators are in Tripoli, have been for over two weeks, but they are not in Benghazi. The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi has not been secured. The U.S. Department of State and the FBI are engaged in a bureaucratic shoving match, what passes for the Libyan government isn't helping matters, and the White House has passed the buck to the FBI, whose investigators are sitting in Tripoli, have been for over two weeks...