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WATCH: Krauthammer: ‘Mainstream Media’ Won’t Be Interested in Benghazi ‘Cover-up of a Cover-up’

WATCH: Krauthammer: ‘Mainstream Media’ Won’t Be Interested in Benghazi ‘Cover-up of a Cover-up’

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Commentator Charles Krauthammer challenged the mainstream media to report on documents released this week directly tying then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s Benghazi talking points to instructions in an email from a White House official.

“The mainstream media are going to say, ‘Oh, it’s so complicated,’ and they’re not going to look into this and without it it’s going to be quite a struggle,” Krauthammer said last night on Fox’s “Special Report.”

He was referring to emails obtained through a lawsuit by Judicial Watch that reveal senior White House official Ben Rhodes instructed that Rice blame an “Internet video”—not a policy failure—for the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left the U.S. ambassador and three others dead.

The email Krauthammer called “the smoking document” implicating the White House is dated three days after the attack on Sept. 11, 2012.

One goal of Rice’s appearances Sept. 16 on all five Sunday morning talk shows was “To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy,” according to Rhodes’ email.

Rice is now Obama’s national security adviser. Rhodes,  a deputy national security adviser at the time, continues on as Rice’s deputy for strategic communications and speechwriting.

Krauthammer condemned the Obama administration for shifting responsibility for the sanitized talking points to intelligence officials.

>>> Read More: New Evidence Shows White House Role in Changing Benghazi Talking Points

“Now we know from [Mike] Morrell, who testified under oath—he at the time was the deputy director at the CIA—that he never brought up the video, so it didn’t come from him. That leaves only the White House and the State Department,” Krauthammer said.

“I just don’t know if there’s going to be any interest in the mainstream media,” Krauthammer said, adding:

The fact that it was redacted when the documents were asked for [by Congress] and only revealed by a court order is telling you that this is a classic cover-up of a cover-up.”

This story was produced by The Foundry’s news team. Nothing here should be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of The Heritage Foundation.

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Danny Wright92p· 18 hours ago

“I just don’t know if there’s going to be any interest in the mainstream media,” 

What? Well of course there's not going to be any interest. Where have you been for the last 20 years Charles?
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lovemydesignergenes· 16 hours ago

I didn't realize the full horror of Benghazi till I saw (mostly in British papers online) photos of the gutted complex. 

There was a photo also of a white man being tortured which was claimed as being a photo of the Ambassador (am not sure if it is him) 

Anyway, the elephant in the room...was that Pres. Obama's reelection came up in 2 months. 

So...Benghazi had to be quickly squashed...minimized...tamped down. 

And for the many gullible, it worked. 

Pres. O was reelected.
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Totally Disgusted· 16 hours ago

The American lives lost in Benghazi are not important to Obama - other than to cover up that AGAIN the American People were lied to. The U.S. Government had more than ample notice of what was going to happen and ABANDONED those people.
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Rochelle Fugette· 16 hours ago

I'm not suprised that Obama knew about it & lied , he lies about everything
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Pat· 15 hours ago

Regardless of what the media does or does not do, anyone with any common sense knew they were lying about Bengazi from the very beginning. The decision to sweep this lie, along with all the rest of his lies(too many to list), under the rug proves how desperate they were to protect the Nobel Peace Prize winning "first black president" badge of honor they love wearing on their sleeves at the expense of our patriots.
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Frank· 15 hours ago

It was obvious to me this was a cover up from the beginning. But the MSM covered for him & the sheeple voted for him. The USA is losing all credibility fast for multiple reasons.
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Ned· 15 hours ago

Impeachment proceedings should be started for Obama and criminal proceedings should be started for Mrs. Clinton. 
Do our legislators have the guts?....
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Ted· 15 hours ago

Please post the email you're referring too. Thanks.
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dam1953· 15 hours ago

It's time to hang this rotten albatross around the necks of the administration and that includes Clinton.
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Rob· 15 hours ago

Regardless of what comes out of this hillery will come out of this unscathed. The left is in there own little world and don't care as long as they have control. This country has never been all twisted up in knots till the liberals took over, everyone fighting each other. The left is nothing but a bunch of power hungry schmucks.
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jeff· 15 hours ago

sickening what these scumbags let happen they knew for months what was up arrest them please sargent at arms do your job damn it
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jeff· 15 hours ago

the executive branch is in violation of rico u idiots arrest them
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Ron· 14 hours ago

The press seems not to realize that when this corruption comes tumbling down and our country is in ruins.....they too will have nowhere to run....lol...remember the Romans when Nero took over.
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J to the S· 14 hours ago

Mark my words Obama will go down as the worst president in U.S. history and those who supported him will deny this to their graves.
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Doug Whaley· 14 hours ago

What difference does it make??!! Whoever the Republicans run against Hillary will be too gutless to bring this up during the campaign so what difference does it make? Romney didn't have the guts to go after Obama so what makes you think the RINO running against her won't bring this up or any of her other lies. The whole establishment part of the party doesn't have the stomach to get in the trenches and slug it out with her. The result will be another presidential loss for Republicans. I wonder why the Heritage Foundation even bothers with these RINOs. They are not conservatives even if they call themselves that before every election. THEY ARE NOT CONSERVATIVES. STOP WASTING YOUR MONEY. THEY AREN'T GOING TO CHANGE. THEY LOVE BIG GOVERNMENT!
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Dave Horne· 14 hours ago

Let me get this correct. There were four Americans killed in an embassy attack and there were nearly 3,000 killed on 9/11. 
Bush got to invade the wrong country ... and Benghazi trumps that. Is that more or less correct?
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I.M.· 14 hours ago

Charles! Stop calling the Left Wing Media "mainstream". You just add credibility to their bent narrative!
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steep· 14 hours ago

well what about the cover up for /11, cover up in Kennedy's assassination etc etc
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Joe Disgusted· 13 hours ago

The whole thing is very disheartening. As Americans we are being manipulated from every direction. The Left, the Right, Big Business, the Unions, uber environmentalists, anyone with an opinion or position to protect be it political or financial. The Press used to keep them at least somewhat at bay. What has happened to our nation? It seems like there was a time when people didn't dare pull this stuff or they would get called on it. Now people die and it just gets swept under the rug. Things have come to a point where facts and reason don't carry much weight. I was shocked when I heard there were close to one hundred AR15 manufacturers at the recent NRA Show. Are we further down the road to a real blood-letting than we think?
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jRhodes· 13 hours ago

These are all coverups of the coverup. Never in my lifetime have we had such a corrupt government.
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Eliott· 12 hours ago

Now that it got this close to Barry, you can be sure this idiot Rhodes will probably step down and tell the entire world the President didn't know anything about it.
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Jim Fuscaldo· 12 hours ago

Wake up America! The CIA Annex was staffed by special ops who were hired to facilitate the acquisition, protection and delivery of weapons previously looted from Gadaffi's arsenals for delivery to the rebels (not the Islamists) in Syria. The weapons were delivered via Turkey. The Islamist became aware of the gun running and raided the "Embassy" to either acquire any stored weapons or end the gun running. Chris Stevens was used by the administration as a willing facilitator (sock puppet) for reasons known only to Stevens and the administration. If timely military / special op rescue help was sent, and Chris Stevens and the special ops staffing the annex survived, the dirty little Obama "Contra" like affair would have been disclosed prior to the election. Also Congress was not informed and did not authorize the operation. It would have destroyed Obama's reelection and would have been an impeachable offense. Mike Rogers Committee botched the investigation. A special prosecutor should have been appointed from day one. Too much Republican power infighting between Rogers, Issas and Boehner to get the investigation done timely and correctly with the use of a special prosecutor. One might even suggest that the Benghazi investigations were nothing more than Kabuki theater to protect certain select leaders of Congress that MAY have known about the Benghazi operation and a special prosecutor would have uncovered bipartisan knowledge and acquiescence in the unlawful gun running to the Syrian rebels. An embarrassment for the president, his administration and to certain Congressional leadership.

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