Fox News Quiet After Congressional Report Finds No Benghazi Scandal

[napkinz]

New House Intel Report Reportedly Finds No Intentional Wrongdoing By The Obama Administration

August 5, 2014
ALEXANDREA BOGUHN & JEREMY HOLDEN

Fox News has gone silent on Benghazi amid reports that the House Intelligence Committee concluded that there was no intentional wrongdoing in the Obama administration's response to the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on August 1 that the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee voted to declassify findings from its investigation into the 2012 attacks on U.S diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, and "concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack," according to committee member Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA).

The intelligence community "did not have specific tactical warning of an attack before it happened," the process used to create administration talking points was "flawed" but "reflected the conflicting intelligence assessments in the days immediately following the crisis, and "there was no 'stand-down order' given to American personnel," Ranking Member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-CA) said in a statement laying out the committee's findings.

It's a clinical, point-by-point refutation of the Benghazi hoax Fox has pushed for nearly 2 years. Yet Fox News made no mention of the report on Monday.* In sharp contrast to its current silence, when House Speaker John Boehner announced the formation of a select committee to investigate Benghazi in June, Fox devoted at least 225 segments to the topic over just two weeks, an estimated publicity value of more than $124 million.

Fox's sudden lack of interest in congressional investigations into Benghazi comes less then one week after Rep. Trey Gowdy, head of the select committee, announced - in what Fox News billed as an "exclusive" interview - that he would hold more public hearings on the attacks in September.

read more: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08/05/fox-news-quiet-after-congressional-report-finds/200318

[randys1]

1. WHere is the fox and romney apology for doing something that was unheard of before

using real time deaths of americans as political ploy?

No, vietnam and the prez debates were not the same

[napkinz]

4. Love means never having to say you're sorry

I think that's a famous movie quote.

FOX must really LOVE its viewers.

[daleanime]

2. Kick....

[Fred Sanders]

3. Fairly quite on the MSM front also, a fraction of the coverage when the GOP was outraged.....

Outing the media liars and deflectors is a day by day progression.

[napkinz]

5. How The Newest House Benghazi Report Should Change Media's Approach To Gowdy's Select Committee

August 4, 2014
OLIVIA MARSHALL

As the House Intelligence Committee's Benghazi report further dismantles the right-wing's Benghazi hoax, will media keep legitimizing House Republicans' repetitious select committee on the attacks?

--snip--

The House Intelligence Committee report joins previous Benghazi investigations by the State Department's independent Accountability Review Board (ARB), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Armed Services Committee which have repeatedly debunked right-wing Benghazi myths that have persisted since the attacks, including the falsehood that a "stand down" order was given to troops stationed in Tripoli and the myth that the administration lied about the attacks having been caused by an anti-Islam YouTube video.

The findings present a new challenge for media outlets in the runup to Gowdy's Benghazi select committee, explicitly formed to investigate "unanswered questions" that previous Benghazi investigations have long-since asked and answered. When House Republicans announced plans to form the committee in May, many in the media presented Gowdy's premise of "unanswered questions" as legitimate.

read more: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08/04/how-the-newest-house-benghazi-report-should-cha/200316

[liberal N proud]

6. chirp, chirp

[napkinz]

7. ...

[kentuck]

8. This should be a bigger story...

Otherwise, it will become another one of those "zombie lies"...

It will never die. Six months from now, we will still have right-wingers screaming about "Benghazi!"

[napkinz]

9. time for Lara Logan to do a follow-up story on "60 Minutes" ...

but that's never going to happen

[Baitball Blogger]

10. The Benghazi outrage didn't even make it to the midterm elections.

[B Calm]

11. The uninformed GOP voter will still believe their lies. Mission Accomplished for

the no good Republican Smear Machine!

[napkinz]

14. I'm sure FOX will have full coverage of Gowdy's hearings in September

nt

[kentuck]

12. Is this true or did you get it out of the Onion??

It's the first I had heard of it. I suspect that we will still hear some lost souls talking about it a couple of weeks from now? It's what Maher called a "zombie lie". You can't kill it.

[napkinz]

13. I provided a link to the story

It was also discussed last night on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

[B Calm]

15. It was reported on MSNBC, but how many uninformed Fox viewers have you ever

seen go to any personal effort seeking the truth?

[napkinz]

16. ...

[napkinz]

17. ...