FOXNews.com: Graham seeks delay to confirmation of Brennan until Benghazi questions answered

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Graham seeks delay to confirmation of Brennan until Benghazi questions answered Jan 8th 2013, 01:29 A top Republican senator called Monday for a delay in the confirmation of President Obama's pick for CIA director until more questions are answered on the deadly attack last year on a U.S. consulate in Libya. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina didn't single out Obama's nominee, John Brennan, for criticism, but he accused the administration of ignoring requests for more information about the Sept. 11 attack, which also targeted a CIA annex in Benghazi. "I have not forgotten about the Benghazi debacle and still have many questions about what transpired before, during and after the attack on our consulate," Graham said. "In that regard, I do not believe we should confirm anyone as director of the CIA until our questions are answered." Graham is specifically concerned about U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's talking points in the days after the attack, when she said that the attack seemed to be "spontaneous" violence growing out of protests over an anti-Islam film. She later admitted that some of that information was incorrect, though she said her comments were based on the information available at the time from the intelligence community. Brennan, who worked for 25 years in the CIA, is currently Obama's national counterterrorism adviser and faces potential hurdles to confirmation because of his controversial past comments and his role in the CIA's past program of so-called enhanced interrogations.

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