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How cold in Hell this morning?
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/11/18/1211051/lieberman-mccain-graham-libya-amigos/
Today on Fox News Sunday, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) said they did not think the U.S. Senate should create a special committee to investigate the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11.
Republican senators John McCain (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC) and Kelly Ayotte (NH) this week called for a Watergate-style special select committee to investigate the attack, claiming that the Obama administration, particularly U.N. Ambasss misled the public about the attack resulting from protests against an anti-Islam video.
But Chambliss and Lieberman, both close friends of McCain and Graham (Lieberman, Graham and McCain are often referred to as The Three Amigos), rejected the proposal. I respectfully separate from my two amigos on this one, Lieberman said:
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Earlier in the segment, Lieberman undermined the central case McCain, Graham and Ayotte made in arguing for the special committee, namely the suggestion that Rice willfully inaccurately described the events of the Libya attack. As I look at what we now know the intelligence community was saying that week and I look at Ambassador Rices statements on television on the following Sunday morning, I dont find anything inconsistent between those two, he said. Watch the clips:
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Ash_F
(5,861 posts)While the jumpings good.
aandegoons
(473 posts)It's going to be one lonely retirement.
julian09
(1,435 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)He will have a hard time getting a new subject. Also we see why McCain did not attend the briefing. Eat more crow, you deserve it.
marmar
(77,097 posts)nt