Sen. John McCain said it’s likely that politics were a factor in the Obama administration’s reticence to call the attacks in Libya a planned terrorist attack during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I think it interferes with the depiction that the administration’s trying to convey that al Qaeda is on the wane, that everything’s fine in the Middle East,” McCain said of the attacks in Benghazi.
“I think there’s certain political [overtones],” McCain said in response to whether politics played a specific role. “How else could you trot out our UN ambassador to say this was a spontaneous demonstration five days later. That doesn’t pass the smell test. It was either willful ignorance or abysmal intelligence to think that people come to spontaneous demonstrations with heavy weapons, mortars, and the attack goes on for hours.”
