So, when will McCain be made to answer for arming the Benghazi rebels who attacked the US embassy?

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23. A New York Times artcie in yesterday's paper.

Obama Could Revisit Arming Syria Rebels as Assad Holds Firm

The arming plan that was considered last year originated with David H. Petraeus, then the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and was supported by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The goal was to create allies in Syria that the United States could work with during the conflict and if Mr. Assad was removed from power. Each had a reason for supporting it.

Mr. Petraeus had experience as a general in Iraq training Iraqi fighters and had long worried that militants traveling through Syria to join Al Qaeda in Iraq might one day reverse course and challenge the Assad government. Mrs. Clinton signed on to the initiative after frustration that the Russians had walked away from a transition plan she thought was agreed on in June.

But the president, who had campaigned on the theme that “the tide of war” was receding, was more skeptical, fearing that such a move would, in effect, draw the United States into a proxy war against the Syrian government and its Iranian and Russian backers, with uncertain results. His wariness was reinforced, officials said, by his closest advisers, including Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, both of whom advised against it.

Also skeptical, officials said, was Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations. Her opposition was noteworthy, given that she had pushed for military intervention in Libya.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/world/middleeast/as-assad-holds-firm-obama-could-revisit-arms-policy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

I do not give Rand Paul any credit for asking questions that are 'based on fact' when he is, in fact, promoting is own partisan theory. According to Paul either Clinton/Patraeus were supplying weapons behind Obama's back or Obama was for it before he was against it? (In one case Obama looks incompetent or in the other, duplicitous.)

If there were evidence to support Paul's theory that Obama knew or should have known, I believe that there are Democrats and liberals in the Senate who are courageous enough to ask the same questions. Instead it is a tea party Senator asking questions straight from a list of Glenn Beck theories.