Jay Carney refuses to address questions on Benghazi, from Gregory Hicks VIDEO

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Monday was “unable” to answers questions regarding Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission for the U.S. in Libya, who says that U.S. Special Forces were told to “stand down” during the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi.

“The Department of Defense has addressed this. I don’t have access to the interviews that I think have been referred to and some of the news reports,” Carney said.

Carney continued that the official response to the attacks has already been thoroughly examined by the Accountability Review Board and White House officials.

“[Greg Hicks] is challenging the credibility of the White House,” Henry persisted. “You don’t care about what he’s saying? Do you think he’s lying?”

CBS reports:

The account from Gregory Hicks is in stark contrast to assertions from the Obama administration, which insisted that nobody was ever told to stand down and that all available resources were utilized. Hicks gave private testimony to congressional investigators last month in advance of his upcoming appearance at a congressional hearing Wednesday.

According to excerpts released Monday, Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA commander Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound “when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, ‘you can’t go now, you don’t have the authority to go now.’ And so they missed the flight … They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it.”

Fire burns in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi after the attack there on September 11, 2012. VOA employee public domain