WASHINGTON - A Republican senator took aim at his GOP colleagues today for issuing a report that largely absolved the Obama administration for its handling of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, dismissing the accounting by the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee as "full of crap."

WASHINGTON - A Republican senator took aim at his GOP colleagues today for issuing a report that largely absolved the Obama administration for its handling of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, dismissing the accounting by the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee as "full of crap."

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that in compiling its report, the committee accepted a "complete bunch of garbage" and allowed more finger-pointing within the administration about responsibility for the fatalities at the consulate.

"I'm saying the House Intelligence Committee is doing a lousy job policing their own," Graham said on CNN's State of the Union.

"This report puts all the blame on the State Department and absolves the intelligence community," he said. "When the Department of Defense committees looked at it, the Department of Defense was held blameless. At the end of the day, everybody is pointing fingers to everybody else."

Other Republican members of Congress suggested that the Benghazi debate end. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. said he thinks it's time to "move beyond that."

The back-and-forth followed the Friday release of the latest report about the attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other U.S. personnel.

The House review found that the administration did not intentionally mislead people about how the attacks unfolded.

No one gave an order to the U.S. military to "stand down" in their efforts to save the Americans in the consulate, as some critics allege, the report said.