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Posted on 01/19/2014 7:19:28 PM PST by smoothsailing
January 17, 2014
In all seriousness, if you’re a reporter for any other outlet besides Fox, and you are seeing this, you should either feel obligated to prove her wrong by pointing to all your own investigative work on this story, or just hang your head in shame because you’re just a disgrace to your profession.
“They tried to prevent the truth from coming out and the Administration tried just about everything to discourage Fox from investigating and reporting,” she continued. “All the American people wanted, and all I ever wanted, was just the facts – why did 4 Americans die? What happened?”
“The Obama Administration put out that phony video story — but who could not have been suspicious of the Administration after hearing that?” Van Susteren asked. “Frankly, if they had been candid on day 1, the Benghazi story would have been over in short order. It would not be to the point we are now: with a Senate Bi Partisan Intelligence Committee report with the very painful conclusion that the murders at Benghazi could have been prevented.”
Van Susteren gave examples of how the Administration tried to prevent Fox from telling Americans the truth:
In the early days after Benghazi, the State Department omitted only Fox News Channel from its conference call to all the media when it claimed to be answering questions about Benghazi for the media. Our friends in other media outlets were scandalized that Fox was not included and told us all about it. They were suspicious of State Department forgetting us/Fox and courageous to tip us off. The State Department claimed it was accident and not intentional.
And then shortly thereafter, there was the CIA briefing about Benghazi at the CIA for all the networks – except one: Fox News Channel. The CIA would not let Fox News Channel attend. [...]
And there were many times in the months and years since September 2012 when Obama Administration officials would make comments to suggest that Fox was just doing the Benghazi reporting for political reasons. The Administration was doing what it could to deter and demean the Fox News Channel investigation. They did not want to give us the facts — so their strategy was to attempt to belittle and demean our reporting.
After taking a swipe at the New York Times for issuing an analysis that has since been completely debunked by a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report, Van Susteren wrote of attempts by a friend of hers within the Adminstration to get her to silence Fox’s Jennifer Griffin:
[M]y friend told me that my colleague Jennifer Griffin, who was aggressively reporting on Benghazi, was wrong and that, as a favor to me, my friend in the Administration was telling me so that I could tell Jennifer so that she did not ruin her career. My friend was telling me to tell Jennifer to stop her reporting. Ruin her career?In 20 plus years, I have never received a call to try and shut down a colleague – not that I even could – this was a first.
Knowing Griffin to be one of the best investigative reporters in the business, Van Susteren demanded her friend offer proof that her colleague was wrong. None was forthcoming:
I got no proof. Zero. I smelled a rat. Favor to me? Hardly. My friend was trying to use me. I feel bad that a friend did that to me, tried to use me for a dirty reason. I knew then — and it is now confirmed by BIPARTISAN Senate Intelligence Committee — Jennifer was getting her facts right. I think it is really low for the Administration to stoop this low.
To be sure, the Administration should be ashamed of how it’s behaved since September 11, 2012. But it wouldn’t have been able to behave this way if other news organizations covered this story as aggressively as Fox News did.
Sadly, Obama and Company knew from the start that their accomplices in the media would parrot anything they said, and go along with their contention that this was a “phony scandal” ginned up by the President’s enemies which of course include Fox News.
Since a junior senator from Illinois first threw his hat into the presidential ring in February 2007, we’ve watched America’s media totally abdicate journalism for his benefit.
Benghazi is just another example.
With three more years left of this presidency, it likely won’t be the last.
In my mind Greta is the best at what she does.
She is a real pro.
Much as I think this administration is twisted and wrong, i do not give a fig that people want to get stoned
It is harming only to themselves and they don’t get all hopped up like people do on meth or crack or whatever poison they want to pump into themselves to get over the pain of being betrayed by their childish and immature parents.
Boy, did you ever nail it!
Which is why I expect Gotterdammerung when they can no longer sustain the facade. They will go full Bolshevik.
Thanks for the link, TZ, I hadn’t seen that! :)
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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Benghazi is Hillary’s downfall. Four Americans died because of Hillary’s incompetence, inexperience, ignorance and arrogance. The Obama regime tried to help her cover it up. Four Americans are still dead. They were murdered and our so called “State Department” never lifted a finger to help them when they asked for help.
Well put. I had been looking for a description of them. The only thing I could think of, was to say that I thought there was no limit to how low they would stoop, but I like yours even better. Thanks for making my day.
But Obama calling it a bad habit not very different from cigarette smoking is a foot in the mouth comment that the media will go into overdrive to hide.
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I am suspicious he still uses street drugs
How is LTC Lakin
Wow! Great truth telling by Greta.
...And for potentially failing a random drug test at place of employment.....
To this day, DOS has never released the results of the Stevens autopsy. Another “cover-up”?
I’ve never understood Van Susteran and that whole Scientology thing, but over time I’ve come to see Greta as an honest professional journalist.
She’s a rare breed these days, she can report on a story while keeping her personal ideology out of it.
Hey, by the way, congrats on those Seahawks!
The GOP should never let this die until the truth is finally told.
Sad. Our veterans who gave all so we could have religious freedoms are rolling in their graves.
I think the enemedia were truly shocked that they could not get Kerry elected in 2004.
Unfortunately, their response has been to up their game tremendously, with ever tighter integration of news, “reality”, and the “stars”.
It’s working.
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