As per usual on the Sunday morning public affairs, there were a lot of middle-aged U.S. Senators discussing the news of the week today, but the only thing that really pricked our ears up was South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham's call on CBS' Face The Nation that he'll do whatever he can to block Chuck Hagel and John Brennan from being voted on as heads of Defense and CIA respectively, until the Obama administration "comes clean" on what happened last September in Benghazi.
Last month Graham made a similar threat on Meet The Press that outgoing DefSec Leon Panetta testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about Benghazi or he'd hold up Hagel's nomination. Panetta ended up going before that committee last week (with Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey).
“No confirmation without information,” the South Carolina Republican vowed on Sunday, keeping up the pressure that began the week after the September 11, 2012 attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that led to the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
This article appears in Feb 7-13, 2013.