We can thank 60 Minutes and CBS for throwing fuel on the fire and giving the talking heads over at Fox a new reason to whip up their audience over the attacks in Benghazi. And to no one's surprise, Sen. Lindsey Graham decided to pile on and use it as an excuse for more GOP obstruction.
October 28, 2013

Someone. Please. Make. It. Stop. We can thank 60 Minutes and CBS for throwing fuel on the fire and giving the talking heads over at Fox a new reason to whip up their audience over the attacks in Benghazi. And to no one's surprise, Sen. Lindsey Graham decided to pile on and use it as an excuse for more GOP obstruction.

Graham Promises To Block All Senate Nominations Over Benghazi:

Amid the sense of gridlock that has become the norm in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is now threatening to block every single nomination from the Obama administration until he gets what he wants on Benghazi — again.

On Sunday evening, CBS’ 60 Minutes aired a new report on the attack in Benghazi, Libya that took place last year, examining the nature of the attack, which analysts are now calling pre-planned. This differs greatly from the early days and weeks after the attack, when members of the administration were still attempting to find out what went wrong and what led to the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

In that light, and still on the hunt for a White House cover-up, Graham was on Fox News on Monday, advocating for yet another look into the tragedy, echoing the demands of the most conspiracy-minded members of the House of Representatives:

GRAHAM: So I am calling for a joint select committee. But for God’s sake, let the House have a select committee where you get three or four committees together to look at this situation as one unit rather than stove piping. And where are the survivors? 14 months later, Steve, the survivors, the people who survived the attack in Benghazi, have not been made available to the U.S. congress for oversight purposes. I’m going to block every appointment in the United States Senate until the survivors are being made available to the Congress. I’m tired of hearing from people on TV and reading about stuff in books.

“We need to get to the bottom of this and to my house colleagues, Darrell Issa has done great job,” Graham continued in his Fox interview, referring to the many House Oversight Committee hearings that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has held related to the attack. Issa himself, however, has admitted that he did not learn much in his last major round of public hearings. Read on...

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