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New Details Discredit Fox News Reports On Benghazi Attacks
Source LA Times
By Hayes Brown on Nov 2, 2012 at 9:47 am
A slew of new reporting this morning debunks Fox News reports claiming that the Obama administration withheld assistance during the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. With these revelations, the combined conservative narrative as led by Fox News — that the Obama administration failed to respond adequately during the attack and that mainstream media has not covered Benghazi enough — is in further disarray.
The Los Angeles Times’ version of the CIA’s role focuses the most heavily on pushing back on Fox’s spin:
“At every level in the chain of command, from the senior officers in Libya to the most senior officials in Washington, everyone was fully engaged in trying to provide whatever help they could,” a senior intelligence official said in a statement. “There were no orders to anybody to stand down in providing support.”
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In fact, the official said, the military diverted a Predator drone from a reconnaissance mission in Darnah, 90 miles away, in time to oversee the mission’s evacuation. The two commandos, based at the embassy in Tripoli, joined the reinforcements. And a military transport plane flew the wounded Americans and Mr. Stevens’s body out of Libya.
The new reports also contain previously unreported details about the CIA’s role in Benghazi. President Obama and Secretary of Defense Panetta did order U.S. forces into the region, but the CIA was the first to respond to the attack, arriving on the scene in under half an hour.
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GOP hate radio--- which blasted this story to over 50 million sheep over the last week. It has been so obvious the right was just making this one up. Conning the sheep yet again...
That's the story of US politics the last 20 years, since reagan did his most politically significant act, killing the 'Fairness Doctrine' and enabling the right wing talk radio monopoly that still dominates politics. Faux News is disgusting. After the flubs of rethugs in the last administration these jerks trying to make propaganda over this tragedy is repulsive.
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