Graham squirms on CNN after Benghazi story collapses

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday defended his decision to block President Barack Obama’s executive branch nominations partially based on a story about Benghazi that 60 Minutes was forced to retract.

Last week, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan admitted that she made a “mistake” after reports showed that her source, security contractor Dylan Davies, was not at the U.S. mission in Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2011 terrorist attack as he had claimed.

In an interview with CNN late last month, Graham had cited the Davies interview while repeating his threat to block all of the president’s nominations until survivors of the Benghazi attack testified before Congress.

But the 60 Minutes story was not true,” CNN’s Candy Crowley noted on Sunday. “Will you now end your threat to place a hold on the president’s nominees?”

“No, my request has been going on for a year to talk to the survivors,” Graham insisted. “I never asked for the British contractor. I didn’t know he existed.”

Translated: I'm in a tough race for re-election and I have to appeal to the teabaggers.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/10/graham-squirms-on-cnn-after-benghazi-story-collapses-i-never-asked-for-60-minutes-interview/

[Heather MC]

1. Don't rethugs like tough guys who yell alot

Lindsey should go all Chris Christie and wag his finger and yell at Tea Turds and just do what‘s best for our country.

But to quote my 8 year old

Neva gonna happennnnn!

[Blue Owl]

2. Squirm you slimy worm.

Harder!

[B Calm]

3. He actually said that without

John McCain holding his little hand?

[Dawson Leery]

6. Seeing that McCain is the mature one, that is an improvement for Lindsay.

[malaise]

4. I was ROFL

What a fool - even Blind BS has backed down

[Le Taz Hot]

5. He's in a rough race for re-election?

Ooh! Do tell!

[gopiscrap]

7. Graham: what a fucking asshole

I hope that buttwipe eats shit!

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[spanone]

9. lindsey talks out of both sides of his mouth AND his ass.

[JDPriestly]

10. Snowden releases data on NSA spying: espionage.

Graham asks for congressional testimony, presumably on C-Span or CNN, from agents who survived Benghazi and whose identities are classified: patriotism?

On Wednesday, Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell -- along with CIA officers who were at the agency's Benghazi base on the night of the attack -- testified at a classified hearing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In the closed hearing, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the proceedings, Morell was asked by Republican members about how the second wave of attackers knew to go to the CIA annex, which was a mile away from the diplomatic mission. Morell responded that at this point the CIA did not know whether the attackers had known the location of the annex or learned about it on the evening of the attack, according to these sources. [The Daily Beast, 5/24/13]

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CNN Reported That More CIA Employees Are Scheduled To Testify Before Congress On Benghazi Attack This November. According to CNN's own reporting, eyewitnesses to the Benghazi attacks will testify in another closed door session before the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight and Government Reform the week of November 11:

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In a letter to Graham ... [the State Department] also wrote that "because these survivors are potential witnesses in a terrorism prosecution, as well as law enforcement professionals who engage in security activities around the world including at high-threat posts, disclosure of their identities could put their lives, as well as those of their families and the people they protect, at increased risk." [FoxNews.com, 11/1/13]

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/11/03/cnn-forgets-benghazi-survivors-have-testified-b/196728

Fortunately, we have freedom of the press, so if the names of these agents and witnesses are published or stated in the media, our reporters have nothing to fear.

Let's apply the same principle to all who wish to inform the public in violation of the executive's classification authority.