Declassified Benghazi Transcripts Debunk Fox's Favorite Myths

[DonViejo]

Source: Media Matters

Declassified transcripts from House Armed Services Committee hearings on the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks revealed Fox News' highly politicized Benghazi reporting rarely reflected the facts on the ground.

Declassified Transcripts Of Benghazi Briefings Released: On January 13, Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) released formerly classified transcripts of committee hearings on the September 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya:

The House Armed Services Committee today released a series of recently declassified transcripts of briefings on the September 11th 2012 attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya. The briefings were conducted by the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations then chaired by Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), though they were open to all members of the Committee and attended by Members off the Committee. The briefings, which took place over the course of several months, were part of the Committee's examination of the actions of the military chain of command before, during, and after the attack. (Press Release, U.S. House Of Representatives, Armed Services Committee, 1/13/14)

Fox's Jennifer Griffin Reports: The Declassified Transcripts Show A "Woefully Ill Prepared And Ill Postured Military." On the January 14 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom Fox national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported that the declassified transcript of Benghazi hearings revealed that the military was "ill prepared" to respond to the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi. (Fox News, America's Newsroom, 1/14/14)

Fox Host Kilmeade: "The U.S. Government Knew An Attack Was Imminent And Didn't Do A Thing About It." On the October 28 edition of Fox & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade claimed that "the U.S. government knew an attack was imminent [in Benghazi] and didn't do a thing about it." (Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/28/13, via Media Matters)

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[Botany]

1. And Lindsey Graham was last seen heading to his fainting couch w/a powerful case of the vapors

[pinto]

5. Cheap shot and totally besides the point. Who still cares if Graham is gay or "feminized".

Or whatever. It's the facts that count here, not some tired oft repeated stereotype. And, fwiw, tildology has some more pertinent things, political, at their website.

Just my 2 cents, but this simplistic meme grows old.

[Botany]

8. I care! Even as a straight man it pisses me off that an alleged gay man ...

.... hangs out with people who demonize and hurt my fellow American GLBT people
for political ends.

I am sick of Graham be it back in the day of the 7 year $77 million blow job hunt called
White Water, he and John McCain's walking tour of a Baghdad market that wound up
getting an elementary bombed and several vendors at the market shot as collaborators,
or Lindsey's obsession with Benghazi even after two of the fallen parents have publicly
asked not to use their sons' deaths for political gain.

[dorkzilla]

2. I'm hard pressed to think that this will shut the RWNJs up

They aren't exactly the type of people who are easily swayed by those troublesome things called "facts".

[NealK]

3. Yeah. They'll come up with something to comfort them into their conspiracy theories.

[KansDem]

6. Besides, there're too many words in those facts

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Way too many words!

[dorkzilla]

7. Reading hard!

Math harder!

[MyNameGoesHere]

4. BENBUSHI!!!!!

January 22, 2002. Calcutta, India. Gunmen associated with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami attack the U.S. Consulate. Five people are killed.

June 14, 2002. Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber connected with al Qaeda attacks the U.S. Consulate, killing 12 and injuring 51.

October 12, 2002. Denpasar, Indonesia. U.S. diplomatic offices bombed as part of a string of "Bali Bombings." No fatalities.

February 28, 2003. Islamabad, Pakistan. Several gunmen fire upon the U.S. Embassy. Two people are killed.

May 12, 2003. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Armed al Qaeda terrorists storm the diplomatic compound, killing 36 people including nine Americans. The assailants committed suicide by detonating a truck bomb.

July 30, 2004. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A suicide bomber from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan attacks the U.S. Embassy, killing two people.

December 6, 2004. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda terrorists storm the U.S. Consulate and occupy the perimeter wall. Nine people are killed.

March 2, 2006. Karachi, Pakistan again. Suicide bomber attacks the U.S. Consulate killing four people, including U.S. diplomat David Foy who was directly targeted by the attackers. (I wonder if Lindsey Graham or Fox News would even recognize the name "David Foy." This is the third Karachi terrorist attack in four years on what's considered American soil.)

September 12, 2006. Damascus, Syria. Four armed gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar" storm the U.S. Embassy using grenades, automatic weapons, a car bomb and a truck bomb. Four people are killed, 13 are wounded.

January 12, 2007. Athens, Greece. Members of a Greek terrorist group called the Revolutionary Struggle fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. Embassy. No fatalities.

March 18, 2008. Sana'a, Yemen. Members of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Jihad of Yemen fire a mortar at the U.S. Embassy. The shot misses the embassy, but hits nearby school killing two.

July 9, 2008. Istanbul, Turkey. Four armed terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate. Six people are killed.

September 17, 2008. Sana'a, Yemen. Terrorists dressed as military officials attack the U.S. Embassy with an arsenal of weapons including RPGs and detonate two car bombs. Sixteen people are killed, including an American student and her husband (they had been married for three weeks when the attack occurred). This is the second attack on this embassy in seven months.