Despite a new House Intelligence Committee report clearing the Obama administration of wrongdoing in its response to the Benghazi attack, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is not backing down.
“I think the report is full of crap,” Graham said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
He said that the report did not take into account the members of the administration that handled and likely altered the Benghazi talking points after the attack. Going even further, Graham said that the committee is doing “a lousy job policing their own.”
“I’m saying that anybody who has followed Benghazi at all knows that the CIA deputy director did not come forward to tell Congress what role he played in changing the talking points,” he said. “And the only way we knew he was involved is when he told a representative at the White House, I’m going to do a hard review of this, a hard rewrite.”
CNN host Gloria Borger countered Graham and told him that the House report concludes that the administration received bad information at first and did not lie.
“That’s a bunch of garbage,” Graham shot back. “That’s a complete bunch of garbage.”
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