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You touched on this in your piece. a couple dozen cia guys hanging around libya. why? >> that is a big question. what was the mission. there's been speculation, quite frankly in the press and other areas that there was some kind of a gun running mission. cia flatly denies that. a senior intelligence official says that's not true. whether or not there will be any testimony to that behind closed doors we don't know the. >> and there's a huge political cost to the obama administration. you've got powerful senators not going to allow nominations to go through unless you have the testimony from tho...

Those operators to keep quiet. drew griffin is with the cnn investigations unit. drew, first of all, excellent reporting on all of this. they're pushing back right now on what you're reporting. what are they saying? >> being completely transparent the cia director says cnn is wrong, he is not pressuring anybody not to talk to congress and in fact is willing to facilitate and september out a letter facilitating the meeting between his workers in benghazi and congress. be that as it may, members of congress finally are going to get what they want, a face to face meeting with some of the cia cont...

Workings. the cia says this is patently false telling cnn not a single cia officer who was on the ground in benghazi during the attacks has been subjected to any cia polygraph intended to discourage them from speaking to congress or as a retaliation adding that to date, some of these officers have already spoken to the oversight committees on benghazi cnn has heard from congressmen unequipsed they are get the whole truth. one tells cnn on condition of anonymity, we know what the cia tells us they were doing in libya, but it is unclear if we really know what the agency was up to. >> suzanne and...

As former navy s.e.a.l.s, formerly army special forces and former marines were under contract to guard cia agents on the ground. the security officers were among those who responded when and bass door stephens' compound was attacked on night of september 11th. sources tell cnn they will appear behind closed doors in a classified congressional hearing the week of november rth. members of congress have been trying to get access to them and other actual cia agents but as cnn has been reporting those attempts at least to date have failed. sources tell us only one cia operative who was in benghazi ...