Facts be damned, Darrell Issa's got his talking points on the attacks in Libya and he's sticking with them. From this Sunday's Meet the Press, Issa doubled down on his assertion that the groups which attacked our consulate in Benghazi were affiliated with al Qaeda and continued his game of arguing semantics with David Gregory and Andrea Mitchell:

Issa stands by claims of al Qaeda-affiliation in Benghazi attacks:

Rep. Darrell Issa on Sunday stood by claims that a group affiliated with the terrorist organization al Qaeda was involved in the 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.

"It was accurate," Issa said on NBC's Meet the Press. "There was a group that was involved that claims an affiliation with al Qaeda." [...]

Issa said that Kirkpatrick did "very good work" but that he has seen no evidence that the video was the attack's leading cause, a claim made by then-UN ambassador Susan Rice in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

He maintained that the administration should come clean about misstatements about the causes of the attack, even if those claims were made to protect the CIA outpost in Benghazi.

"They went out on five stations and told the story that was at best a coverup for the CIA or at worst something that cast away this idea that there was a real terrorist operation in Benghazi," Issa said.

The September 11, 2012 attack left four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.