Harry Reid

Shocker.

Via Washington Examiner:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he will not form a select committee in the upper chamber to examine the fatal terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, despite a House move to create such a panel.

Reid made the announcement after a top GOP Senator told the Washington Examiner he plans to formally ask Reid to create a select committee to look into the matter.

“I’m going to ask our Democratic colleagues and I’m working on a letter now to have a select committee in the Senate,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told the Examiner. “Let’s look at it anew , look at every agency with one set of eyes. A new set of eyes.

Graham said like the House select panel, a Senate select committee should be headed by the majority party.

“Let us do our thing, let the House do their thing,” Graham said. “The Republicans will be in charge in the House and Democrats would be in charge in the Senate and let’s compare work products.”

But Reid, when asked whether he would go along with such a plan, said there was no need for a select committee in the Senate, suggesting the House GOP panel was unnecessary as well.

“Keep in mind there is no conspiracy here,” Reid said.

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