Foreign Policy Casts More Doubt On Fox's Benghazi Source

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Fox News has been hyping the statements of an anonymous source who has contradicted the account of both the Obama administration and independent findings about the attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Now two separate statements by experts in Foreign Policy are casting more doubt about the claims of Fox's source.

Fox's flagship show Special Report ran a series of reports that highlighted an anonymous source who claims to have knowledge about the Benghazi attacks. In one segment, the source claimed that the Obama administration had forces available to aid the victims of the attack, but chose not to utilize them, a claim contradicted not only by the State Department, but by the Accountability Review Board, an independent panel convened to investigate whether there was a breach of duty during and after the attack.

But in a post on Foreign Policy magazine's website, national security journalist Tom Ricks, who previously accused Fox News of "operating as a wing of the Republican Party" on the Benghazi issue, published two accounts from experts who strongly questioned Fox's Benghazi source. Ricks reported that he's hearing Fox doesn't have a scoop with its Benghazi source, and quoted Retired Special Forces Col. David Maxwell stating:

Whistle blower my a**. If this guy is a real special operator (and I have my doubts) I wonder if he realizes what an embarrassment he is to the community. What he offers is pure speculation and not based on any real facts as I have heard and appears to be coming from his fourth point of contact. He comes across as just another conspiracy theorist who is taking Fox News for a ride.


full: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/02/foreign-policy-magazine-casts-more-doubt-on-fox/193876

[egold2604]

1. First Rule of Fox Journalism. Never Let The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Story

[joeybee12]

2. Isn't it obvious? FUX Noise doesn't have a "source" They're making this shit up...nt

[Frustratedlady]

3. I received an email this morning from Newsmax (I have no idea how I got on their list)

that accuses the administration of hiring al Qaida-linked group to defend Benghazi.




US Hired al-Qaida-Linked Group to Defend Benghazi Mission
The Libyan militia group that the State Department hired to defend its diplomatic mission in Benghazi had public al-Qaida sympathies, and had displayed the al-Qaida flag on a Facebook page for months before the attack that killed four Americans. And there is no indication the group, the February 17th Martyrs Brigade, fulfilled its commitment to provide security during the deadly Sept. 11 assault.


WHO is Newsmax? I can't get off their list and have no idea how I got on.

[Initech]

4. Fox really needs to shut the fuck up about Benghazi.

Like a kid throwing a temper tantrum they need their toy taken away from them. Why? Bush had more embassy attacks before him than any sitting president in US history!!! Where the fuck was the Fox Opinion crowd then??? One happens under Obama and they turn into angry apes flinging their feces at people. WTF!