Media in Republican's Pocket

Posted: Nov 24, 2014

Why isn't the newest development on Benghazi being blasted across the media? Why haven't this board's Republicans acknowledged and apologized for their rabid criticism of Susan Rice and the Obama administration on this? The embarrassed House Select Committee sneakily released the latest Benghazi report last Friday, the Friday before Thanksgiving. That is a well known media trick to bury a news story. (The Michael Brown grand jury outcome will probably be handled the same way this week). During holiday weeks, the media runs on minimal staff and mostly prepackaged news stories as they take the holidays off,too. In my estimates from what I can find online, the House has wasted at least $17 million on this Benghazi witch hunt. Really. If you can't find the story, here it is . . . * * * Michael McAuliff WASHINGTON -- "Yet another detailed investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, has refuted claims that there was a coverup or that officials didn't do all they could at the time to save the four Americans killed that night." "The latest findings, released Friday, come from the declassified two-year investigation of the House Intelligence Committee, which conducted an exhaustive probe into the incident, including claims that the White House cooked up phony talking points for then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice." "Among its findings, the report says CIA personnel responded not just well, but heroically; that there was no "stand down" order, as some critics have claimed; there was no intimidation of witnesses by superiors; there was no intelligence failure prior to the attack; and that a "mixed group" of individuals, including some linked to al Qaeda, participated in the attack." "But perhaps the most significant conclusion is its finding that Rice's talking points -- a key focus of the Benghazi Select Committee empaneled by House Speaker John Boehner -- were not part of an attempt to conceal the severity of the incident. . . . ;