http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/11/20/1225461/mccain-rice-benghazi-talking-points/
guess he got a reprieve from his oldtimers and had that moment of clarity.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today issued a statement essentially conceding that he was wrong in accusing the White House of changing U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points on Benghazi for political purposes.Former CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers last week that the CIA’s assessment that al Qaeda was responsible for the Sept. 11 attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi was taken out of Rice’s talking points after an interagency review. McCain and his allies then claimed the White House took out the talking points because it supposedly undercut the Obama administration’s narrative that it had severely weakened al Qaeda.
i do give him a nod for coming back on stage and correcting himself.
McCain responded today and instead of taking issue with the substance of the report, the Arizona Republican wondered why administration and intelligence officials didn’t offer this information in closed door sessions:
“I participated in hours of hearings in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week regarding the events in Benghazi, where senior intelligence officials were asked this very question, and all of them – including the Director of National Intelligence himself – told us that they did not know who made the changes. Now we have to read the answers to our questions in the media. There are many other questions that remain unanswered. But this latest episode is another reason why many of us are so frustrated with, and suspicious of, the actions of this Administration when it comes to the Benghazi attack.”“I participated in hours of hearings in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week regarding the events in Benghazi"
except the one's where he was on the camera saying why he wasn't getting answers
what seems to be glaringly absent from this recanting, an apology to Susan Rice, he ought to go on Sunday talk shows all of them and beg her forgiveness for him allowing his right wing innards to come out.
