Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called for the formation of a Benghazi select committee in the Senate. He made the comments on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, according to a partial transcript of the show provided by a producer.
“Other questions about the new Congress, senator,” Hewitt said, according to the transcript, “do you imagine that there will be expansion of the House select committee on Benghazi to include senators?”
“I hope so. I’ve been calling for this for two years,” said Graham.
“Trey Gowdy and Elijah Cummings have done a good job. What I would envision is a select committee being formed in the Senate of members from the appropriate committees instead of a stovepipe approach. We would create a select committee in the Senate to marry up with the select committee in the House, become a joint select committee, bootstrap on the work already done by the House, and take this to its logical conclusion.
“If you ask me the big winners and losers of the midterms, I’d say the big winners is getting to the bottom of Benghazi. The big losers are the Iranian nuclear ambition, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the big winner is going to be Israel, because I’ll be in charge of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee that deals with all foreign aid to Israel, to the Palestinians and the United Nations. And I’m here to tell your listeners if the United Nations continues to be the anti-Israeli body that it’s become, they’re going to put their funding at risk.”
Graham went on to say that he’d want to serve on the committee and that he’d like to ask Susan Rice questions about the terror attack in Benghazi.
