It Is Official: Fox News Lied About Benghazi

[Capitalist]

Unbelievable!
It took the FBI several days to reach Benghazi and investigate the 9-11 terrorist attacks that left four Americans dead.
The FBI stayed for three hours.
They left behind several sensitive documents that were later scooped up by regional media outlets.
Today, Alaan TV, a UAE channel, revealed that letters found inside the consulate, written by the U.S. Consular staff and addressed to the Libyan Foreign Ministry and the Benghazi police chief, revealed security breaches at the consulate.
MEMRI reported:
“The Letters Read As Follows: ‘Early This Morning, On September 11… A Member Of The [Libyan] Police Force Was Seen… Photographing The Inside Of The U.S. Consulate’”



There’s more:
“The Letters Revealed That Since September 9, The Americans Had Been Requesting Special Security Arrangements In Preparation For Arrival Of Ambassador Chris Stevens” – But That These “Were Not Granted”

Reporter: “The letters revealed that since September 9, the Americans had been requesting special security arrangements, in preparation for the arrival of Ambassador Chris Stephens to Benghazi. These arrangements included the police guarding the front and rear gates of the consulate around the clock, in addition to a mobile patrol and a bomb-sniffing dog.
Read the rest at MEMRI.
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[tyroneweaver]

if fox news lied it was because they were given bogus information by the administration. which they were.

 

[Claudette]

Relying on FoxNews for your information is one step away from Tabloid reading. Actually I'm struggling to even equate it with some of the left wing rags; The Nation, Mother Jones.

It's just crappy Journalism with a very transparent, thinly veneered agenda.

WOW FOX reports and you decide.

Guess you've decided that the State Department not providiing additional security is a figment of FOX's imagination.

Oh and those four dead men are a figment as well.

Oh and the fact that Barry didn't order them to be saved is another figment.

Oh and Barry trotting out his minions to report that it was a "spontaneous" demonstration and not a terrorist attack. Thats a figment as well.

Yup. Gotta be that crappy journalism and that thinly vaneered agenda.

Yup. Your a blind fucking moron.

Cool - just as expected and right on time. Here is the person who takes one statement, heads down the prim rose path and gets to tell me how I think about a wide assortment of ideas. March on far right winger.

When you're done reading Fox, try some comic books. I'd recommend starting with something simple like Archie. Work yourself up to the complex stuff.

LMAO sounds like that would work for you.

Cool indeed.

 

[Sallow]

We are to believe this administration when they have been proven to lie time and again?

Sorry, you've been duped.

btw.....FoxNews does not have a candidate. They are not part and parcel of the corrupted main stream media which has been proven to be in the Obama campaign.

What?

They are part of the Rupert Murdoch empire, and pundits for the Republican party, the Saudi government and big oil.

 

[Katzndogz]

Since that bogus report, additional information has been discovered that makes it even WORSE for the royal regime.

'Troubling' Surveillance Before Benghazi Attack - By Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa | Foreign Policy

BENGHAZI, Libya — More than six weeks after the shocking assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi -- and nearly a month after an FBI team arrived to collect evidence about the attack - the battle-scarred, fire-damaged compound where Ambassador Chris Stevens and another Foreign Service officer lost their lives on Sept. 11 still holds sensitive documents and other relics of that traumatic final day, including drafts of two letters worrying that the compound was under "troubling" surveillance and complaining that the Libyan government failed to fulfill requests for additional security.

 

[Trajan]

Fox News, originally reported that the CIA was issued a "Stand Down Order" by the Administration during the attack on the Benghazi Consulate. Fox News, never declared where it got that information, other than to say they had a "source."

h.t.t.p://w.w.w.youtube.com/embed/G0sA4P2CPgQ


Tonight, CNN reports that the Central Intelligence Agency itself says that no "Stand Down Order" was ever given by anyone at the Administration and/or the State Department.

h.t.t.p://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2012/11/02/exp-erin-cia-releases-new-benghazi-timeline-peter-brookes-nick-burns.cnn

Aside from the fact that I knew the Fox News "Exclusive Report" had been created out of thin air when it concluded that the "CIA called for Air Support" (for which we simply have no protocol for whatsoever within our military relative to the CIA), the entire storyline put forth by Fox News, never made any sense from the very beginning.

What does this do in the minds of those who rely upon Fox News for their information about what's going on in the world, and what does this do to the reputation of Fox News itself? Can you realistically trust anything they say at this point, given their willingness to lie in broad daylight, about something so important relative to the trust that people have in the President of the United States and the Commander In Chief?

No "Stand Down Order" at all was ever given to anyone. Yet, for days now the country was being told the such an order actually existed. Should any News Organization that lies with reckless abandon and willful intent, be subject to Civil and/or Criminal charges of some kind?

That charge made by Fox News, was morphed into an entire theory about the reasons WHY the "Stand Down Order" was given, including an assertion that the United States was engaged in shipping Libyan WMD into Turkey, for use in some kind of Coupe attempt against Assad in Syria. All of that was predicated on the CIA having received a "Stand Down Order" from the President, which we now know was a complete and utter lie told by Fox News.

Is this the future template for Presidential Elections? Say anything to get your candidate elected, no matter how absolutely deceitful and fraudulent what you are saying turns out to be? Who supports that kind of election process?

Tonight, CNN reports that the Central Intelligence Agency itself says that no "Stand Down Order" was ever given by anyone at the Administration and/or the State Department.

a CIA rep 3 days ago said that the CIA never told anyone not to assist anyone else........


and, since when does the CIA speak for the administration or know what state was told by say the nat sec. director? or what the military was told by the Sec. of Def.?





on top of your posts on the plane not crashing in Pennsylvania on 911, I must conclude you are not exactly, lets say, well balanced.

 

[Toronado3800]

We are to believe this administration when they have been proven to lie time and again?

Sorry, you've been duped.

btw.....FoxNews does not have a candidate. They are not part and parcel of the corrupted main stream media which has been proven to be in the Obama campaign.

Do you really believe that? Makes me question every post of yours I will ever read.

 

[Katzndogz]

Fox News, originally reported that the CIA was issued a "Stand Down Order" by the Administration during the attack on the Benghazi Consulate. Fox News, never declared where it got that information, other than to say they had a "source."

h.t.t.p://w.w.w.youtube.com/embed/G0sA4P2CPgQ


Tonight, CNN reports that the Central Intelligence Agency itself says that no "Stand Down Order" was ever given by anyone at the Administration and/or the State Department.

h.t.t.p://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2012/11/02/exp-erin-cia-releases-new-benghazi-timeline-peter-brookes-nick-burns.cnn

Aside from the fact that I knew the Fox News "Exclusive Report" had been created out of thin air when it concluded that the "CIA called for Air Support" (for which we simply have no protocol for whatsoever within our military relative to the CIA), the entire storyline put forth by Fox News, never made any sense from the very beginning.

What does this do in the minds of those who rely upon Fox News for their information about what's going on in the world, and what does this do to the reputation of Fox News itself? Can you realistically trust anything they say at this point, given their willingness to lie in broad daylight, about something so important relative to the trust that people have in the President of the United States and the Commander In Chief?

No "Stand Down Order" at all was ever given to anyone. Yet, for days now the country was being told the such an order actually existed. Should any News Organization that lies with reckless abandon and willful intent, be subject to Civil and/or Criminal charges of some kind?

That charge made by Fox News, was morphed into an entire theory about the reasons WHY the "Stand Down Order" was given, including an assertion that the United States was engaged in shipping Libyan WMD into Turkey, for use in some kind of Coupe attempt against Assad in Syria. All of that was predicated on the CIA having received a "Stand Down Order" from the President, which we now know was a complete and utter lie told by Fox News.

Is this the future template for Presidential Elections? Say anything to get your candidate elected, no matter how absolutely deceitful and fraudulent what you are saying turns out to be? Who supports that kind of election process?

Tonight, CNN reports that the Central Intelligence Agency itself says that no "Stand Down Order" was ever given by anyone at the Administration and/or the State Department.

a CIA rep 3 days ago said that the CIA never told anyone not to assist anyone else........


and, since when does the CIA speak for the administration or know what state was told by say the nat sec. director? or what the military was told by the Sec. of Def.?





on top of your posts on the plane not crashing in Pennsylvania on 911, I must conclude you are not exactly, lets say, well balanced.

General Petraus, who is head of the CIA said that there was no such order from the CIA. Meaning that if there was an order, that's not where it came from. Where did it come from? If obama actually gave an order to help Benghazi, who counter manded that order? Why haven't they been found and hauled up before a Judge by now?

 

[SnagNasty]

LMAO sounds like that would work for you.

Cool indeed.

After further consideration I am now taking your sanguine advice and am now relying on the "New York Post" for all my information.

They have accurately reported NYC has electric issues. Everything else must be true and this is truly indicative of proper, insightful journalism.

New York Post - New York News | Gossip | Sports | Entertainment | Photos

Thank you for taking eye diverting time from the shiney marbles of Fox News to help me.

 

[Claudette]

LMAO sounds like that would work for you.

Cool indeed.

After further consideration I am now taking your sanguine advice and am now relying on the "New York Post" for all my information.

They have accurately reported NYC has electric issues. Everything else must be true and this is truly indicative of proper, insightful journalism.

New York Post - New York News | Gossip | Sports | Entertainment | Photos

Thank you for taking eye diverting time from the shiney marbles of Fox News to help me.

LMAO Good for you dude.

Have a good one. LOL

 

[whitehall]

When is the left going to stop whining about Fox news? We know Hussein and his cohorts watched the 7 hour battle in real time. We know that Military help was within reach and we know that the embassy requested more security numerous times and we know that Hussein never lifted a finger to offer assistance while the Ambassador was murdered (and raped?) and three other people including two veteran Seals were killed. We also know that (true to form) the president skipped town the next day without a care in the world, went to Vegas and instructed his press secretary to lie to the American people.

 

[Cheddarmelon]

When is the left going to stop whining about Fox news? We know Hussein and his cohorts watched the 7 hour battle in real time. We know that Military help was within reach and we know that the embassy requested more security numerous times and we know that Hussein never lifted a finger to offer assistance while the Ambassador was murdered (and raped?) and three other people including two veteran Seals were killed. We also know that (true to form) the president skipped town the next day without a care in the world, went to Vegas and instructed his press secretary to lie to the American people.

Know.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk]You keep using that word. - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Pasco08]

Fox News, originally reported that the CIA was issued a "Stand Down Order" by the Administration during the attack on the Benghazi Consulate. Fox News, never declared where it got that information, other than to say they had a "source."

h.t.t.p://w.w.w.youtube.com/embed/G0sA4P2CPgQ


Tonight, CNN reports that the Central Intelligence Agency itself says that no "Stand Down Order" was ever given by anyone at the Administration and/or the State Department.

h.t.t.p://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2012/11/02/exp-erin-cia-releases-new-benghazi-timeline-peter-brookes-nick-burns.cnn

Aside from the fact that I knew the Fox News "Exclusive Report" had been created out of thin air when it concluded that the "CIA called for Air Support" (for which we simply have no protocol for whatsoever within our military relative to the CIA), the entire storyline put forth by Fox News, never made any sense from the very beginning.

What does this do in the minds of those who rely upon Fox News for their information about what's going on in the world, and what does this do to the reputation of Fox News itself? Can you realistically trust anything they say at this point, given their willingness to lie in broad daylight, about something so important relative to the trust that people have in the President of the United States and the Commander In Chief?

No "Stand Down Order" at all was ever given to anyone. Yet, for days now the country was being told the such an order actually existed. Should any News Organization that lies with reckless abandon and willful intent, be subject to Civil and/or Criminal charges of some kind?

That charge made by Fox News, was morphed into an entire theory about the reasons WHY the "Stand Down Order" was given, including an assertion that the United States was engaged in shipping Libyan WMD into Turkey, for use in some kind of Coupe attempt against Assad in Syria. All of that was predicated on the CIA having received a "Stand Down Order" from the President, which we now know was a complete and utter lie told by Fox News.

Is this the future template for Presidential Elections? Say anything to get your candidate elected, no matter how absolutely deceitful and fraudulent what you are saying turns out to be? Who supports that kind of election process?

LOL!!!! From the NOOB who claims to be an independent.. Why are nearly all independents really liberals?? Could it be that you LIARS think you're actually fooling anyone with your BS??

Just like everyone thinks you are a flaming idiot.

 

[Zoom-boing]

Benghazi was over a YouTube video that insulted Mohammad.

There was nothing anyone could do.

No, it wasn't.

Libya’s president says the deadly assault on a U.S. consulate was a “pre-planned act of terrorism” timed for the 9/11 anniversary — not spontaneous savagery sparked by an anti-Islam movie.

“They chose this date, 11th of September, to carry a certain message,” President Mohammed Magarief said Wednesday.

The trailer for the California-made film “Innocence of the Muslims” had been on YouTube for several months before the terrorists struck, killing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

The film had “nothing to do with this attack,” Magarief told NBC’s Anne Curry.

“Reaction should have been, if it was genuine, should have been six months earlier. So it was postponed until the 11th of September.”

Also, Magarief said, there was no Libyan mob outside the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi when the terrorists attacked, first with rocket-propelled grenades and then with mortars that obliterated a safe house.

Libyan president says attack was planned terrorism - New York Daily News


Of course there were things that could have been done. First and foremost they could have provided more security when Stevens repeatedly asked for it. That alone may have saved the lives of those four men. But those requests were turned down by officials in D.C.

 

[Katzndogz]

When is the left going to stop whining about Fox news? We know Hussein and his cohorts watched the 7 hour battle in real time. We know that Military help was within reach and we know that the embassy requested more security numerous times and we know that Hussein never lifted a finger to offer assistance while the Ambassador was murdered (and raped?) and three other people including two veteran Seals were killed. We also know that (true to form) the president skipped town the next day without a care in the world, went to Vegas and instructed his press secretary to lie to the American people.

It's really worse than that. obama knew that an attack was mobilizing three HOURS before the first terrorist arrived.

Sources, emails point to communication breakdown in Obama administration during Libya attack | Fox News

Who ordered Ambassador Stevens to Benghazi on that day? He was sent to assist in a cultural event. Knowing what we now know from his own cries for help, he didn't wake up and decide to help administer cross cultural understanding. Who sent him there, at that time, and why?

 

[Synthaholic]

OP: Yea, the government would never lie.

But let's talk about a lie we know about for sure. We were told that the Benghazi was a riot gone wrong. Americans died and we got lied to. UNACCEPTABLE.

Synthaholic negged this. I don't think I've been negged by him for more than a month. He must've been depressed that he could no longer give me 5 negs a day and been staying away.

Whining about negs only gets you more negs.

 

[Synthaholic]

Read all about it...Obama spins and lies!!!!

I read them all.

The problem with your post is not that you have the content wrong, but that your ideology is so extremely tied to anger and hate, that forget to notice that embedded within your own post, is the answer to the question you don't even recognize as relevant.

You presented a "Time Line." Well, guess what. No one from the Administration gave you a "Time Line," you created that yourself. In doing so, you projected exactly what you wanted to see within that "Time Line." What's more - is the fact that the "Time Line" itself contains the very reason why the Administration's statements changed with - here it comes: Time.

The very thing you think you are using to assault the President, is the very thing that answers the question you don't even see: Why their statements changed with time, as a direct consequence of time, and only upon the passage of time.

Look, in all honesty - I have not met a single non-hyper-partisan individual who looks at what Susan Rice, Jay Carney, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Martin Dempsey and/or the President himself has said with respect to Benghazi, from September 11th, 2001 through Today, and somehow comes way with the understanding that anyone has lied to you.

It is holistically unrealistic to conclude that someone has lied, when you don't have all the facts. We know you don't have all the facts, because all the facts have not yet come in. When the investigation is complete, then we'll have the facts.

Otherwise, all you are doing is making proclamations with nothing more than the desire to smear reputation and anybody can do that. Such an act takes no real skill. If it makes you feel good, you can fly out there in front of all the facts if you want - but it won't change or alter them in any way.

Here are irrefutable non-partisan the facts:

-> The Arab Spring was already well under way and tension across North and East Africa, were already high and filled with anticipation as dictators began to fall one-by-one and the People sought out their form of democracy and their new place in the free world.

-> Falling dictators mean power vacuums. Radical Islamic leaders being reduced by the Obama Doctrine in places like Afghanistan and seeing OBL taken out, sought to take advantage of the Arab Spring's power vacuum by attempting to leak into legitimate Muslim governments along the way in parts of North and Eastern Africa.

-> A very simple minded individual with nothing better to do than spark havoc, decides that he'll approach several individuals with Jewish heritage, to be financial backers for an offensive Anti-Islamic Video which was unfortunately produced and distributed right here in the United States of America - of course - the "Great Satan." A 40 minute trailer of the video was posted on YouTube by the producer under an assumed name. The 40 minute trailer goes essentially unnoticed at first.

-> An Egyptian Blogger and well known Anti-Islamic Jihadist discovers the video and begins using it to ruffle some Islamic faith feathers online. Still no major response from anyone.

-> The Egyptian Blogger has a contact and an apparent relationship with an Anti-Islamic Florida Pastor who once took it upon himself to broadcast his Churches' involvement in the burning the Korans at a bonfire, who agrees to screen or air the 40 minute trailer for whatever reasons known to the Florida Pastor.

-> As the anniversary of September 11th, 2001, approaches, all of a sudden out of nowhere, the entire Middle Eastern News Media, begin talking up a storm about the Video's trailer, even though the 40 minute Video trailer had been out for two (2) solid months prior without causing too much of a stir in the Middle East, or Northern Africa.

-> Out of nowhere, just days before the anniversary of September 11th, 2001, the Egyptian Media goes wild over the video trailer and grabs the attention of viewers all over the country. The country explodes into wild protests flowing out into the streets of Cairo and days later, the U.S. Embassy in Egypt, gets attacked by what appears to be a spontaneous response to protests about the Video, while at the exact same time in Pakistan, Florida Pastor Terry Jones, is kicked and dragged through the streets in Effigy.

-> Several hours later at approximately 2000 hrs local time, 150 bearded men wearing Islamic Jihadist clothing and driving vehicles with Jihadist logos, began blocking off the streets that lead to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. As they set-up road blocks, they attracted some 20 men who were said to have been in their "Youth" and caused them to protest out loud about the disrespect to the Prophet Muhammad, that the Video had caused - while standing outside the U.S. Compound. After approximately 1hr and 40min minutes of these mock protests, the Compound was hit with the first mortar round, followed by heavy machine gun fire and the Compound walls were breached.

-> Personnel inside the compound sounded the alarm and made emergency procedure phone calls to the Rapid Response Team site. What happened from there is clearly reported here: Benghazi Time Line | Washington Post.


Clearly, political adversaries of the President engaged in massive conflagration of the facts by assuming far too much, before having enough information to draw a sensible conclusion. The above describes to anyone, how and why the initial description of the first attack, could and would be linked to the Anti-Islamic Video.

Clearly, there was a Video. Clearly, that Video caused problems and protests on the ground and clearly, the attackers used a staged protest as cover for their surprise attack on the compound. The blockading of the streets leading up to the compound and the orchestration of 20 or so individuals to "chant" in a protesting tone their frustrations about how the Prophet Muhammad was belittled by the Video, and now having a clearer backdrop of how the CIA and the Libyan Security Forces ultimately got involved, it makes it much easier to see how anybody would have thought that the attacks came as a direct response to the Video and the Protests that followed.

So, all the useless talk over the past couple of days and weeks about the President not labeling the attackers as "terrorists," or that fake Fox News "Exclusive Report" that claims the CIA was denied support and that the CIA called for "Air Support," or that the entire compound was left unsecured with no security personnel at all, or that the President just sat their and "watched them die," is just that - useless talk, as none of it ever happened.

What an election year this turned out to be. What's next from Fox? Close Encounters of the 7th Kind?

Wow.. Still blaming the video.. You're off your rocker dude.. Seriously, stay a librul.

Did the video insult Mohammed and Muslims?

 

[jillian]

Fox news lied.
the sky is blue.
water is wet.

i know... shocking

 

[Synthaholic]

Benghazi was over a YouTube video that insulted Mohammad.

There was nothing anyone could do.

No, it wasn't.

Libya’s president says the deadly assault on a U.S. consulate was a “pre-planned act of terrorism” timed for the 9/11 anniversary — not spontaneous savagery sparked by an anti-Islam movie.

“They chose this date, 11th of September, to carry a certain message,” President Mohammed Magarief said Wednesday.

The trailer for the California-made film “Innocence of the Muslims” had been on YouTube for several months before the terrorists struck, killing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

The film had “nothing to do with this attack,” Magarief told NBC’s Anne Curry.

“Reaction should have been, if it was genuine, should have been six months earlier. So it was postponed until the 11th of September.”

Also, Magarief said, there was no Libyan mob outside the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi when the terrorists attacked, first with rocket-propelled grenades and then with mortars that obliterated a safe house.

Libyan president says attack was planned terrorism - New York Daily News


Of course there were things that could have been done. First and foremost they could have provided more security when Stevens repeatedly asked for it. That alone may have saved the lives of those four men. But those requests were turned down by officials in D.C.

Did the video insult Mohammed and Muslims?

 

[lovemymutts]

Fox News not lie. Now that is a lie. The network is referred to as FAUX News for a reason.