Chaffetz appeared on Fox News Channel's On The Record with Greta Van Susteren on Thursday to discuss his frustration with the State Department. He revealed that injured Americans who were evacuated from Benghazi were not taken to Germany or Italy but to Tripoli:
One of the concerns with those who were injured was how they were extracted. Remember, the fire fight starts at 9:40 PM. The Department of Defense doesn’t even gin up the C-17 until 6 AM. It doesn’t leave Germany until the 2PM hour and doesn’t get back to Germany until the 10 PM hour.
Meanwhile, and nobody has ever said this on television, and nobody has ever mentioned this, they thought they were going to be attacked in Triploi, the embassy was evacuated in Triploli. And yet, when they have these injured people sitting on the tarmac—these guys are severely injured—what to they do? They send an airplane over to Benghazi and they return to Tripoli. Instead of going to Italy or to Germany. It makes no sense.