Hugh Hewitt interviewed Graham yesterday. As the leading expert on the Benghazi debacle outside those actually on the investigative committee, Graham was ready for Hugh’s lead-off question: What’s up on Benghazi? The Senator’s answer was a single, quick thrust:

there’s an email from Hillary Clinton from September the 12th understanding or stating that we know it wasn’t a protest caused by a video, it was a terrorist attack. I don’t know how, in light of that statement, she could have told the families a couple of days later we’re going to get the guy who made that video. It’s pretty clear to me that after the attack, the Obama administration was worried about the narrative that al Qaeda has been decimated and on the run, in light of Benghazi, that if the truth had come out that this was a coordinated terrorist attack, it would hurt the President’s reelection. I think his political team, and I think the people at the State Department, all conspired to mislead the American people about the true nature of the attack, because they were worried about the President’s reelection. That’s what I think happened.”

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