Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today accused the Obama administration of showcasing the President’s actions only when they reflect well on him, falsely claiming that no picture was ever released from the night of an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
McCain was on Fox News this afternoon when he made the claim, railing once more against the administration’s handling of the attack’s aftermath. “What we don’t know is what he did in the intervening hours between then and when he left for Las Vegas,” McCain told host Neil Cavuto, continuing a right-wing meme that has speculated that the President went to sleep during the attack.
McCain then compared the administration’s actions in Benghazi to those during and after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden as evidence of the cover-up he has long alleged:
McCAIN: Now, we’ve got dramatic pictures of everybody watching the raid that took out bin Laden. Right? We don’t have any pictures, we don’t have depiction of what the president was doing while the lives of four brave Americans were being taken in this what is clearly a terrorist attack by an Al Qaeda affiliated organization.
