Akin campaign: Why is McCaskill focusing on barroom brawl instead of deaths in Libya?

(From the Todd Akin campaign)

Earlier this week, Claire McCaskill's office sent out a press release about corruption in police trainers in Afghanistan. Why would Claire McCaskill spend time on a bar brawl and alcohol abuse in Afghanistan, but continue to refuse to look into the Benghazi attack that resulted in the death of four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya? Why would Claire McCaskill not organize hearings? Is she simply protecting Barack Obama and Harry Reid? The Obama Administration clearly failed to provide adequate security for our team in Benghazi, and it appears that they misled the American people about the circumstances around the incident. 

"Claire McCaskill claims to believe in 'oversight' and 'transparency' but apparently doesn't think those should be required of the Obama Administration or her own businesses," said Rick Tyler, senior adviser to the campaign. "Claire McCaskill issued a press release this week trumpeting her oversight of a bar brawl and alcohol abuse by contractors in Afghanistan, but she won't call for hearings into the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including our ambassador. Pure and simple, this is hypocrisy. I think most Missourians would agree that figuring out what happened in Benghazi, and why the Obama Administration misled Americans about the attack, is a higher priority than a bar brawl in Afghanistan. The White House knew these attacks were by terrorists and misled the American people for weeks, but apparently McCaskill doesn't think that's important. Once again, Claire McCaskill is showing her true colors--she is Obama's biggest ally in the Senate and she will protect him and his Administration at all costs. Todd Akin has called for Senate hearings on the Benghazi attack, but McCaskill has run the other way to protect Barack Obama and not anger Harry Reid."

Opening paragraph from a McCaskill press release this week:

A bar brawl, severe drug and alcohol abuse, and fraud are among the allegations being leveled at a police training contractor in Afghanistan, as well as uniformed and civilian Army officials-revelations that U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill says will give new fuel to her longstanding fight to correct the systemic failures associated with efforts to train the Afghan police force. LINK