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On the recordMay 1, 2014
That was the 15th. So this is in real-time that people are reporting a coordinated terrorist attack. There was no protest. The video had nothing to do with this because there was no protest. And why would they suggest that? They would be far less culpable in the eyes of the American people and myself if, in fact, this was caused by a video we had nothing to do with, a protest we could not see coming. The truth is that this was a coordinated terrorist attack that you could see coming for months, and it was the result of a broader failure of policy. Why didn't they want to admit that? They were 7 weeks out. It undercuts everything they were trying to tell the American people about their foreign policy. This is the smoking gun that shows they were consciously trying to manipulate the evidence to steer the story away from a coordinated terrorist attack of an unsecured facility and toward the land of an Internet video causing a protest. That, to me, is unacceptable and is clear as the Sun rises in the east, for those who care. I will end with this and turn it back over to Senator McCain. After this attack, President Obama said the following: But everything that--every piece of information we get, as we got it, we laid it out for the American people. I am here to tell you that statement has not borne scrutiny. The administration did not live up to this statement.…
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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May 1, 2014

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