Republican members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi are making efforts to contact an Air Force whistleblower who was quoted anonymously in a report Thursday that claimed pilots who could have reached Benghazi on the night of the attack were never given permission to launch.

“I definitely believe that our aircraft could have taken off and gotten there in a timely manner, maybe three hours at the most, in order to at least stop that second mortar attack … and basically save lives that day,” the unidentified source told Fox News.