GOP Sen: Republicans Should ‘Move Beyond’ Benghazi After New Report

Appearing on Meet the Press Sunday morning, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) told NBC’s Chuck Todd that his GOP colleagues need to move on from the Benghazi issue, in light of a newly-released report by the House Intelligence Committee that found no intelligence failures.

Todd asked Flake if Republicans should “drop the Benghazi conspiracy theories” after the new report cleared up some of the burning questions. Flake said that while he had been skeptical about how Susan Rice and the Obama Administration portrayed the attack at first — which the report concluded there were, in fact, issues with those talking points — he acknowledged that Republicans should move beyond it.

“I always thought the biggest problem with Benghazi is how it was cast by the administration, and the remarks of Susan Rice just really flew in the face of what we knew was going on,” Flake said. “But with regard to the other things that were addressed by this report, yes, I’ve thought that for a long time we ought to move beyond that.”

But despite Flake’s senitments, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday morning that the report is “full of crap.”

Watch the video below, via NBC:

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