Republican Senators John McCain, Kelly Ayotte, and Lindsey Graham led the charge against Susan Rice in the wake of the Benghazi attacks, but it turns out that not even her decision to take herself out of the running for secretary of state is enough to end those attacks.
Today in a press conference on the Benghazi report released this week, Graham ripped Rice again for her comments in TV show appearances only a few days after the attack. “I believe firmly now more than ever, that the story she told on five national television shows was more of a political story than it was informing the American people,” he said. “Who changed the talking points?”
Rice confirmed repeatedly that she used talking points provided by the CIA. By Graham’s logic, talking points issued days after the event must have been false because they did not match a thorough report released three months later.
Some of the specific language that McCain, Ayotte, and Graham continue to criticize, blaming protesters rather than terrorists for the attacks, was included in a resolution they agreed to pass in the days after the attack. The resolution read “The violence in Benghazi coincided with an attack on the United States Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, which was also swarmed by an angry mob of protestors on September 11, 2012,” and was passed unanimously by the Senate, meaning that all 100 senators officially sponsored or co-sponsored it.









