Lindsey Graham said “Mr. President, don’t think for one minute I don’t hold you ultimately
responsible for Benghazi. I think you failed as commander in chief
before, during and after the attack.” As for Rice, Graham said, “I have
no intention of promoting anyone who is up to their eyeballs in the
Benghazi debacle.”
The most grievous debacle I've seen is two Senators who obviously listened to a leaky CIA employee or someone with access to top secret CIA information who used them to spin lies of an ideological nature. Who was it that told these two Senators that the White House had taken reference Al Qaeda out of the first Benghazi response read by Susan Rice? Didn't they even question that person's information enough to know it was the CIA that removed that comment. Didn't they listen to Ambassador Rice's words and understand her caveats and the fact that this was what the CIA knew at the time of her presentation.
John McCain said “I take on things … when I believe they’re wrong. Four Americans died that didn’t have to die.”
Even one casualty is a terrible loss but compared to the 4,486 US soldiers killed in the Iraq war they supported based on bad information (without question) a bit worse.
It seems to me the horrific understanding we now should see clearly is that we have a shadow force withing our CIA and Military that thinks nothing of outing Secret Agents like Valerie Plame and probably more individuals in her network, spinning us into an unnecessary war, and using Honorable Senators and leaders to further their own ideological goals and profits. How wrong can Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham be for a position of leadership to not only fall for this again and again. What next war are they already working on and why do they always opt for violent confrontation or the destruction of good people and their credibility.
I can understand Lindsey Graham's motivation (although I don't respect that motivation) being from South Carolina and up for reelection but even the very conservative people of that state can spot a phony and I know he will not make it past his primary race.
So why has John McCain gone from moderate (if you can call it that) Republican to extremist to moderate to extremist conservative over the last few years?
I'm sorry to say it all sounds like they both would rather believe the worst of their President and his administration than just ask the serious questions in their committees of people who really know the answers rather than shadow dances who dance with the truth like a fart in a windstorm.
