Libya - U.S. Offers Rewards in Benghazi - NYTimes.com The State Department said Friday that since January it had been quietly offering rewards of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of anyone involved in last year's attack on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The announcement ended weeks of silence by the Obama administration on questions about whether it was using all available means to catch the attackers. In a letter sent to lawmakers on Friday, the department said the rewards were not publicized on its Rewards for Justice website as is normally done because of security issues related to the investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the mission in Benghazi, which killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Investigators in Libya have made it known to people in the country that cash is available for actionable information, a State Department official said.