on the internet. and republican senators john mccain, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte yesterday sent their second letter to the cia director and other intel leaders asking in part whens intelligence community decided it was a terrorist attack. they write, our questions should not be hard to answer, and the american people have a right to learn what our intelligence communities knew about events of september 11th, 2012, and when they knew it. congressman buck mckeon, chair of the house armed services committee, says the president's team keeps, quote, digging a bigger hole. >> this to me, it looks like they're trying to hush this whole thing up, hope it goes away, and wait till after the election. they're wrong. the american people are getting engaged in this. everywhere i go, people talk to me about this. they're concerned. >> but democrats are pushing back, saying republicans are using this tragedy to, quote, score political brownie points. >> barack obama is no more responsible for what happened in benghazi than george bush was responsible for 9/11 or ronald reagan was responsible for the marine