“Miller, who sits on both the Armed Services panel and the Intelligence Committee, told The Hill that the Pentagon denied his request for a meeting with the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan The top-ranking Republican on the Intelligence oversight subcommittee was in Afghanistan in mid-October. “I wasn’t allowed to [meet with him]. I was there for four days, asked to meet with Gen. McChrystal and was told I couldn’t, although Sen. [Daniel] Inouye [D-Hawaii] met with him and Sen. John Kerry [D-Mass.] met with him,” Miller said in an interview. Miller, who is serving his fifth term, stressed that McChrystal was in Afghanistan when he was there. “I said I’d meet with him anywhere,” Miller said, sarcastically adding, ‘that’s OK … I’m just on HASC [the House Armed Services Committee] and Intel.'”