Confirmed: Kay Hagan Skipped ISIS Intel Meeting for Fundraiser

"Vigilant" Senator skips hearing on “current and future worldwide threats” for cocktail reception

Democratic Senator Kay Hagan, who presents herself as “vigilant” on issues of national security, has now confirmed to the Associated Press that she indeed skipped an important Armed Services Committee hearing in February addressing “current and future worldwide threats,” including ISIS, for a cocktail reception fundraiser in New York.

Hagan’s campaign confirmed Wednesday the hearing occurred Feb. 27. The Armed Services Committee held a closed hearing that afternoon on “current and future worldwide threats” to national security. Hagan’s campaign scheduled a cocktail reception at a New York apartment that evening.

Her campaign hasn’t denied she missed more committee meetings, but she has described herself as a vigilant senator who in part has chaired three subcommittee meetings that addressed the threat of “al-Qaida in Iraq and Syria,” a previous name for the group that now calls itself the Islamic State.

WFB reports that it had attempted to get confirmation of the Senator’s attendance of the fundraiser previously, but was stonewalled by her camp as well as by the host of the event. When Hagin provided Politifact with various excuses for her absences at other important ASC hearings, they seem to have deliberately left off the Feb. 27 meeting. When Hagan admitted after a debate Tuesday that she did miss the ISIS hearing, she did her best to remain vague:

“There was one and what had happened at that hearing, it was scheduled early in the day, and then votes were scheduled, and that hearing then had to be postponed later that day, so yes, I did miss that one.”

The revelation is giving her GOP opponent Thom Tillis a new theme: #HoldHaganAccountable.

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