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A senior Republican senator on Sunday accused President Obama's aides of deliberately covering up the details of the Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador so that voters wouldn't question Obama's handling of the war on terror.Related post:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), a longtime point man for the GOP on national security issues, said he believes the administration knew within 24 hours of the assault that it was a coordinated militia attack and was not tied to other anti-U.S. protests across the Middle East. According to Graham, the administration suggested otherwise so voters wouldn't think al-Qaeda remained a threat.
"They're trying to sell a narrative, quite frankly, that [the] wars are receding and that al-Qaeda has been dismantled," said Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Service Committee's emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee, in an interview on CBS's Face the Nation. "And to admit that our embassy was attacked by al-Qaeda operatives ... I think undercuts that narrative."
It was an exceptionally pointed allegation on what has become a major campaign issue. The attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, which killed four Americans including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, has raised questions about whether the State Department denied its embassy staff adequate security to save money and why the White House was slow to label the assault a terrorist attack.
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