It’s only been a few hours since the White House announced the capture of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the suspected mastermind of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans on September 11, 2012, and already the response in Washington is breaking down strictly along partisan lines.

Some Republicans have responded to Khatallah’s capture in Libya Sunday in a raid by U.S. special forces by asking whether it is being used as a political distraction, while a debate about how the suspected terrorist will be brought to justice is already underway.

Former Representatives Allen West of Florida and Joe Walsh of Illinois, two ultra-conservatives who lost their seats in 2012, took to Twitter to question the timing of the capture.