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   From: asshole@senate.gov   
      
   Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren charges that the Obama   
   administration tried to press her to shut down a colleague’s   
   reporting on the jihadist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that cost   
   the lives of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.   
      
   Van Susteren asserted recently on her blog that the   
   administration made an extensive effort to conceal what happened   
   in Benghazi. She cited U.S. officials’ refusal to include the   
   Fox News Channel in several Benghazi briefings along with a   
   warning that her colleague’s career would be ruined if she   
   persisted in her reporting on the attack.   
      
   The Fox News host recalled a “disturbing phone call from a good   
   friend in the Obama administration” shortly after the Sept. 11,   
   2012, attack, which the administration initially blamed on a   
   protest of an anti-Islam video.   
      
   “In this call, my 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,” Van Susteren wrote.   
      
   Van Susteren said that in her 20-plus years in the business, she   
   had never received a call to try to shut down a colleague.   
      
   “Here is what I know: Jennifer is a class act … experienced …   
   and a very responsible journalist. One of the absolute best in   
   the business – no ax to grind, she just wants the facts.”   
      
   Van Susteren said she challenged her friend in the Obama   
   administration to provide facts to back up her charge against   
   Griffin.   
      
   “I told my friend before I go to Jennifer telling her she is   
   wrong, I need proof she is wrong, strong proof and you need to   
   be specific – what are you saying she is getting wrong?”   
      
   But she found quickly there were no facts to offer.   
      
   “We went around and around – including the statement again that   
   this was just a call as a favor to Jennifer and me to save   
   Jennifer’s career from reporting incorrect information. I got no   
   proof. Zero. I smelled a rat. Favor to me? Hardly. My friend was   
   trying to use me.”   
      
   Van Susteren said she felt badly that a friend “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,” Van Susteren wrote.   
      
   Blogger Ben Bullard wrote at Personal Liberty Digest that Van   
   Susteren “isn’t a media figure who makes her living by testing   
   the bounds of plausibility along the outermost fringes of   
   conspiracy theory.”   
      
   “That’s why it’s hard not to sit up and take notice when she   
   writes that someone inside the Obama administration threatened   
   to end the career of a fellow reporter who was digging too deep   
   into the Benghazi story,” he wrote.   
      
   As WND reported, evidence arose shortly after the attack that   
   the Obama administration’s insistence that the deadly incident   
   was a protest turned violent was false.   
      
   This week, WND reported an eyewitness to the attack confirmed   
   the conclusion of the report released last Wednesday by the U.S.   
   Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that the Obama   
   administration misled the American public.   
      
   Speaking from Libya, Ahmed Salem, a young political activist   
   opposed to radical Islamic terrorism, told WND that al-Qaida and   
   other radical Islamic militia groups, including some from Egypt,   
   launched a pre-planned, well-organized, heavily armed attack on   
   the U.S. compound.   
      
   http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/fox-anchor-team-obama-threatened-   
   benghazi-reporter/   
      
       
      
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