GOP Congressman Votes To Cut Funding For Embassy Security, Then Blames Obama For Libya Attacks

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien interviews Representative Jason Chaffetz.

They’ve been doing this for the past week or so.  The GOP is trying to make the Benghazi embassy incident into political hay for their side.

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GOP Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has repeatedly blamed President Barack Obama for the September 11th attacks on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. Chaffetz has also spearheaded the House  Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s October 10th hearing to address the alleged security lapses that led to the deaths, in what the Salt Lake Tribune calls an “political stunt.” But it turns out that any lack of security around the U.S. embassy could be directly attributable to budget cuts that Chaffetz voted for.

On this morning’s Starting Point, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien called Chaffetz out during a tense interview:

O’Brien: “Is it true that you voted to cut the funding for embassy security?”

Chaffetz: “Absolutely. Look, we have to make priorities and choices in this country.”

O’Brien: “Okay, so you’re prioritizing. So when there are complaints that, in fact, that there was not enough security, you’ve just said, ‘absolutely’, that you cut — that you were the one to vote against — security for the State Department, which would lead to Benghazi. That seems to say that you had a hand in the responsibility for this.”

Chaffetz: No.

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According to Raw Story, who’ve also reported on today’s CNN interview, Chaffetz is a Mormon and has been actively campaigning for GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney.

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