It is completely unclear as to what the Republicans hope to accomplish with the special committee.

FOX News has used this as a crutch to support the extremism of the Tea Party. There is one particular family, parents, father that comes on the air at FOX to demand attention to the deaths in Benghazi. The bodies have been returned to the families and I am sure they have been autopsied. I don't get it.

I would expect the US House to understand the problems in Libya when they demand someone to be held for the deaths. It is nearly impossible to carry out that outcome in Libya. 

There is hostilities between East and West Libya.

May 8,m 2014
By Esam Mohamed 

TRIPOLI, Libya: Gunmen shot (click here) and killed Libya's intelligence chief in charge of the country's eastern sector in an attack Thursday in the city of Benghazi, security officials said.

The attackers intercepted the car of spy chief Ibrahim Senussi as he was driving downtown in front of the Central Benghazi Medical Center, officials from the city's security directorate said.

As the gunmen forced Senussi's car to halt, they shot him three times - in the head, neck and chest - and he died of his wounds, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media....

The hostilities between East and West Libya are not new. What the USA did was to limit the deaths by Gaddafi, but, the hostilities were always there. There has been a real battle over a oil shipping port that has lasted something like a year.

I am fairly sure it was the As-Sidrah Port (Oil Terminal). I think East Libya still wants to split from Western Libya, so they fight a lot.

It was recently the folks at Sidrah loaded an oil tanker, "The Morning Glory" full of Libyan oil. They wanted to sell it. But, because the USA only recognizes Tripoli as the legitimate government of Libya, the US Navy intercepted the tanker and sent it back to Tripoli.

The Morning Glory is seen at the Tripoli port, March 23, 2014. 

By Hani Amera
ON BOARD THE MORNING GLORY,
Libya Sun Mar 23, 2014 7:54pm EDT

(Reuters) - A commercial oil tanker seized by U.S. forces after it loaded crude at a Libya port held by anti-government rebels has docked back in the capital Tripoli, a Reuters witness said on Sunday.

U.S. special forces boarded the tanker a week ago off Cyprus, days after it left Es Sider port, which is controlled by rebels who demand more autonomy and oil wealth in defiance of the central government. A Reuters reporter was allowed to board the Morning Glory moored near the Tripoli coast, witnessing how Libyan navy forces arrested the 21-strong crew and three rebels who had boarded the ship at Es Sider....

That happened on March 23rd and today there was an assassination of an intelligence chief.

This is not the first Libyan official to be assassinated. It happens often enough. 

I don't think the USA should be meddling. I know Cyprus and Tripoli asked for the help, but, do we have to be the Mediterranean Police? I think Cyprus got in on the issue because Turkey saw it as important. The problem with meddling is that it can come back haunt you. Turkey has enough to do, they don't have to be policing Libya.

The point is there is always and everyday a lot of hostile activity in Libya. The central government is still weak and quite frankly I think the people want it that way. They are no more scared of another Gaddafi than the USA colonists were of another king. I believe it will be at least a generation before Libyans will actually consent to sincere government structure.

The best thing that can happen within Libya that can actually begin to heal the country and bring people together is to support the people with US AID and Red Crescent. Humanitarian aid may very well bring about some stability by returning to a 'daily routine.' If there was a life to value, the turbulence might settle down.

It seems to me the fighting is not over yet. The USA as well as other nations like to assign leadership so international relations can develop and the people can move forward, but, that isn't happening in Libya regardless of every effort attempted.

There is very little any nation can do to bring about the arrest of any involved in the Benghazi attacks on the US Consulate. I want to point out, the Late Ambassador Stevens died of smoke inhalation. No one shot him. His death is equally tragic, but, who do you hold responsible? Who set the fires? It is a very difficult set of circumstances to find a reasonable final outcome that Americans would call justice.

Libya has to resolve it's chronic confrontation between East and West Libya, but, it really needs to begin by helping the people to have a life they value enough to WANT a benevolent government. They still don't want it.