Wow: Greta drops a bomb about White House trying “very hard” to get Fox not to report on Benghazi

Young Conservatives ^ | 1-17-2014 | Joshua Riddle

[smoothsailing]

January 17, 2014

Wow: Greta drops a bomb about White House trying “very hard” to get Fox not to report on Benghazi

Joshua Riddle

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.

On Thursday, Greta Van Susteren wrote at her blog, “After Benghazi on 9/11/2012, the Obama administration tried very hard to discourage Fox News Channel from reporting on it. The effort was obstruction – pure and simple.”

“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.

[Bullish]

I think it is really low for the Administration to stoop this low.

LOW???? Liberals will stoop lower than Hitler if it gives them power. We're not too far away from the boxcars and ditches if we don't put a stop to these frikkin' rats.

[angelsonmyside]

bump

[ConorMacNessa]

I don't know why you're directing that question to me. His case, in my view, exposes in bold relief the evil embodied in this regime.

They're turning us from free citizens into thralls, day by day and bit by bit. This Marxist traitor has, in five short years, undone much of the work of over two centuries of of patriots.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[yldstrk]

well excuse me for living

I directed it to you because your display prompted remembrance of his case

I consider him a hero and thought you might know

what is your issue

[jazusamo]

I first became aware of Van Susteran when she was cohost of Burden of Proof with Cossack? on CNN. She usually took the liberal side of issues but it was clear to me she wasn’t a leftist and she presented reasonable arguments.

Since she’s been on Fox I’ve become a fan and it seems to me she’s become much more conservative but maybe that’s just me. Her Scientology thing, as you say, does not enter into her reporting or even her opinions as far as I can tell, I don’t watch her all the time but enjoy her show.

Thanks for the congrats on the Seahawks, I’m not a fan like I used to be since moving north and I miss the LA Rams. :-)

[ConorMacNessa]

No issue here - I also regard him as a hero. I simply did not understand what prompted your question.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[milagro]

Yup—she and Catherine Herridge have done excellent reporting on this story. Herridge’s first reports were spot on, and I think she deserves a Pulitzer, but fat chance of that happening!

[bitt]

I’m with ya...where’s a copy of the autopsy? What did they DO to that man? First reports were repulsive.

[onyx]

Don’t miss this one!

[Moorings]

New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS e.t.c are nothing more than propaganda outlets for the current regime. They do not report the news as it stands, if it shows the regime in a bad light. They have no credibility whatsoever, and if anyone one is completely relying on their reporting, they are missing out on all the facts.

[Moorings]

Correction:if anyone is completely relying on their reporting, they are missing out on all the facts.

[vox_freedom]

Thanks for the ping. I didn't miss it!

[JoeProBono]

[vox_freedom]

We have the Constitution!

[VerySadAmerican]

I admire Greta for speaking out. But I would have a lot more praise for her if she’d tell who this “friend” is that tried to use her. People should start naming the crooks.

[Arrowhead1952]

Do I really have to say it?

[Rusty0604]

Even while working at CBS, Sharyl Attkisson has done some reporting on Benghazi.

[hosepipe]

yeah...exactly

[Pride in the USA]

ping!