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John McCain’s Scheduling Error
Poor John McCain. The senior senator from Arizona, former presidential candidate and general Republican big-man-in-Washington was so busy on Wednesday complaining about President Obama’s handling of the Benghazi mission killings that he just didn’t have time to do his actual job and attend a hearing on the Benghazi mission killings.
Mr. McCain has said he wants to get to the bottom of what he seems absolutely certain was a catastrophic bungling of the Libyan situation by Mr. Obama and his team. He is proposing holding “Watergate-style” hearings on the matter, with lots of witnesses and of course, lots of television cameras.
But yesterday, when the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee received a classified briefing on the Benghazi issue, Mr. McCain was absent. His spokesman Brian Rogers blamed a “scheduling error.”
Politico reported that Senator Susan Collins was a bit miffed at Mr. McCain for not showing up and said it was unnecessary to create “a brand new committee” just for Benghazi “when we already have the Senate’s chief oversight committee, plus the Intelligence committee, examining this very important matter.”
Mr. McCain has said he wants to get to the bottom of what he seems absolutely certain was a catastrophic bungling of the Libyan situation by Mr. Obama and his team. He is proposing holding “Watergate-style” hearings on the matter, with lots of witnesses and of course, lots of television cameras.
But yesterday, when the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee received a classified briefing on the Benghazi issue, Mr. McCain was absent. His spokesman Brian Rogers blamed a “scheduling error.”
Politico reported that Senator Susan Collins was a bit miffed at Mr. McCain for not showing up and said it was unnecessary to create “a brand new committee” just for Benghazi “when we already have the Senate’s chief oversight committee, plus the Intelligence committee, examining this very important matter.”
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/john-mccains-scheduling-error/
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