D’oh: Fmr Sen. Scott Brown Missed All His Border Security Briefings

In the last weeks of his campaign, former Massachusetts Senator, current candidate for U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, and future Vermont senatorial candidate Scott Brown has hammered his opponent on national security, focusing especially on the supposed vulnerability of the U.S.-Mexico border to ISIS infiltration. Here’s Brown’s Jos. A Bank ad excoriating Senator Jeanne Shaheen for not securing the border against terrorists:

Makes this, via WaPo’s Sean Sullivan, kinda awkward:

As a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he missed all six hearings on border security that he was eligible to attend, records suggest.

Brown was absent from five hearings in 2011 and one in 2010, according to a review of public records and congressional transcripts and video. Of the six, four were full committee hearings and two were meetings of the subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which he belonged.

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One meeting was called “Border Security: Moving beyond the virtual fence.”

Perhaps Brown thinks there’s no need to attend briefings when we have sorta-non-eye-witness testimony that “Quran books” have been found on border trails. Good enough for Scott Brown, good enough for New Hampshire.

[h/t Washington Post]

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