Is there a connection between what happened in Benghazi and what is happening in Syria? That is a question that one member of Congress raised with the Secretary of State. His question was quickly dismissed.

Some guests who have appeared on my radio program believe there is a connection that the administration doesn’t want disclosed. They believe the administration is trying to bury the Benghazi scandal and run out the clock. That strategy may be working since we are now a year removed from what happened in Libya.

More than a year later there are still many unanswered questions. Why, for example, did the State Department blame the attack on a YouTube video when there are documents that show that within hours of the attack, the administration knew it was a coordinated terrorist attack?

A related question is who was responsible for inserting the YouTube explanation into the talking points? Was it a person in the State Department or the White House? The Libyan president was saying days after the attack that is was planned and premeditated. But the administration continued explaining that it was due to a YouTube video.

Members of Congress want to know why commandos were denied permission to go to Benghazi. The only response was they would have arrived too late to make a difference. Yet at the time, no one knew how long the attacks would last.

Why was a Foreign Emergency Support Team denied permission to go to Benghazi? Supposedly the conditions were “too dangerous.” If that is so, why was the ambassador and others in the area? And why wasn’t embassy security strengthened if the area was so dangerous?

Another question involves then-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Why didn’t the Accountability Review Board interview her? After all, she said she took “full responsibility” for the attack.

The American people deserve answers to these questions before we put more Americans (both troops and ambassadors) in harms way. But a year after the attack, I fear that most Americans are willing to move on rather than get answers. I hope that I am wrong. I’m Kerby Anderson, and that’s my point of view.