Rep. Issa Grilled on Meet the Press on Whether He Used Benghazi for the Election

Gregory, Mitchell Grill Issa Over Benghazi Report: Did You Use al Qaeda as ‘Hot Button’ During Election? (Mediaite)

Meet the Press host David Gregory and MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell grilled House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) over this morning’s New York Times report alleging no al Qaeda involvement in the 2012 Benghazi attacks, which, if true, would contradict Issa’s previous statements about the attack on the NBC program.

“You’ve said repeatedly that it was al Qaeda,” Gregory said. “The reason that matters is that you and other critics said that the president specifically won’t acknowledge that it was al Qaeda because it was an election year and he wants to say that after bin Laden [al Qaeda] has been decimated, and it would make him look bad if it as al Qaeda.”