Benghazi point man explains why he wasn’t at hearing

The chairman of the House committee overseeing the hearing, Congressman Darrell Issa, said Pickering had refused to attend.

Pickering called Issa’s statement “colossally misinformed,” in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.

Pickering said that he had made it clear to Issa, via the White House, that he was “ready to come at any time.” But according to him, Congressman Issa didn’t invite him, but rather informed Pickering that he might want to take up his offer sometime in the future.