Senators Push Brennan On Misleading Testimony -- Weekly Standard
John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency, is getting renewed scrutiny for a highly questionable claim he made during his confirmation hearings last week. On Tuesday, two Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Marco Rubio and James Risch, wrote to Brennan to request additional information concerning Ali Harzi, a suspect in the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi.
Brenan, in an exchange with Rubio, had said of Harzi that the U.S. government “didn’t have anything on him.” The claim is almost certainly false. The U.S. government provided evidence of Harzi’s involvement in those attacks to the governments of Turkey and Tunisia, which had both held Harzi as the U.S. tried to gain access to him for questioning.
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My Comment: This is not the first time that he has publicly mentioned intelligence details that has put him on the 'hot seat'. But even with these remarks I doubt that it is going to derail his confirmation process. President Obama wants him and the Democrats are not going to vote against his nominee. On a side note .... this focus on his nomination has resulted in some interesting ideas being floated about .... with the idea of establishing a FISA-like court for drone strikes probably being the most controversial. But will this be established ... I doubt it. Adding another layer on how we conduct war is not going to change the dynamics in this type of conflict .... if anything it will only impede it.
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