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demanding answers on the Benghazi attack, but his office tells ABC News he missed a classified briefing on the subject because of a "scheduling error." The classified briefing was held on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee - of which Senator McCain is a member - and lasted three hours. It featured testimony by officials from the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA and the National Counterterrorism Center.
McCain was holding a press conference demanding answers about the administration's handling of the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Step. McCain called on Congress to launch Watergate-style hearings to get to the bottom of what happened. "More than two months after the Benghazi attack, there are still many unanswered questions," McCain told reporters in the Capitol Hill press conference. "While we await the findings and recommendations of the administration's internal review of the Benghazi attack, it's essential for the Congress to conduct its own independent assessment." At precisely the same time McCain was holding that press conference, the briefing for the Homeland Security Committee was happening in another part of the Capitol building. Why did he missing the briefing on a subject he has been so adamant in demanding answers on? McCain's office says his absence was unintentional - an oversight. "Senator McCain was absent from the hearing due to a scheduling error," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers told ABC News. Even if he had attended, McCain was unlikely to be satisfied with what he heard. After the briefing was over, the top Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, Senator Susan Collins, was asked if she was satisfied with the hearing. I feel that we've only scratched the surface through the briefings that we had today." There are currently at least four Senate Committees looking into the Benghazi attack. Collins does not agree with McCain's call to combine those into one special - or "select" - committee like the one that investigated Watergate. " I do not see the benefit of, nor the need for a select committee," Collins said. "Our committee, our Homeland Security Committee has government-wide jurisdiction and a history of producing comprehensive bipartisan reports on everything from the Ft. Hood terrorist attack to Hurricane Katrina, so I don't see the need for creating a brand new select committee to take a look at this." The White House had no immediate comment on McCain's absence from the hearing, but one former White House official was quick to jump on it. "It is nothing short of appalling that Senator McCain would use his time and influence to play politics instead of getting answers to the questions he claims to have," said Bill Burton of the pro-Obama group Priorities USA.
Steve D o 2 hrs 31 mins ago Wow - while reading about somebody's sex scandal, I came across a very small story, buried under the gossip and scandals. It says the USA is fighting a war in Afghanistan, and that American soldiers are dying on a daily basis.
ryannrita 18 mins ago It may be the un-informed, possibly the younger generation and a bunch of ethnic centric folks that keep voting for the names they know or party lines.. American voters have lost their sense of rationale and integrity. Seems these days it is all about race or immigration issues....
greg o 2 hrs 55 mins ago We need a committee to oversee the committee that is looking into misconduct by committee members of the committee committee. Of course we'll need a committee to oversee funding for the committee committee... I cant imagine how McCains staff could overlook one of the 50 committees he is on.
Sarah Goodwoman 2 mins 22 secs ago I believe McCain was heard saying this. I am at this press conference during the classified briefing about Benghazi for I had a scheduling issue. The scheduling issue was I had scheduled this press conference to demand we know what happens in Benghazi during the briefing to determine what happen there. I need to be at this press conference so the American people will know that I will not rest until we get to the bottom of what happen.
MarkR 2 mins 56 secs ago ryanrita - what are you talking about? He headed a PE firm, which has no similar skills required to be POTUS. He had poor strategy and implemented what little he had poorly. He alienated any thinking woman by wanting laissez faire conveservatism to be kicked out the door while telling woman what, how when they can do to their own bodies. He wanted to invest $2 trillion in military, when the experts saw no need while neccessitating huge social cuts. I could go on and on but he was not the brightest candidate, he was not the most strategic candidate, and he showed he could not run a country by the decisions he made.
Can someone please remind him that the election was over last week? The man who brought us Sarah Palin still wouldn't stop running 4 years after he took a beating from voters!
Georgia o 2 hrs 2 mins ago John McCain has abdicated his responsibilities as a senator to get the real facts on Benghazi. McCain would rather spin Republican lies and try to sell the American public down the river, as he tried to sell us the ignorant Sarah Palin, which cost him the last presidential election.
James o 39 mins ago McCain has said again and again that he has seen no "credible" evidence that more than a tiny handful of men might have been alive in captivity after the official prison return in 1973. He dismisses all of the subsequent radio intercepts, live sightings, satellite photos, CIA reports, defector information, recovered enemy documents and reports of ransom demands -- thousands and thousands of pieces of information indicating live captives -- as meaningless. He has even described these intelligence reports as the rough equivalent of UFO and alien sightings. You are complaining now about 4 dead in Benghazi, but you continue to block efforts of families trying to find out about their missing POW's and MIA's from Vietnam. Does even 1 missing American in the Vietnam War that you continue to keep families from finding out about, match your desire to find out about Benghazi?
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