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“I want to thank the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King) for the time. I am very grateful. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, last evening, CNN reported startling new revelations about efforts by the CIA to prevent agency employees and contractors from speaking to the press and Congress about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi last September. According to CNN: Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency's missions in Libya have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency's workings. The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or talking to Congress. This report confirms what I have been saying for months: survivors of the attack are being silenced. By failing to have public hearings over the last year, the Congress has empowered the government to silence the eyewitnesses from the attack. This is unacceptable. The CIA says that the agency ``employees are always free to speak to Congress if they want.'' However, the reported monthly polygraphs clearly contradict these assertions. Just listen to the following comments reported by CNN. ``You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well,'' one CIA source told CNN. ``You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation,'' another said.…”