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By David Edwards
Sunday, March 2, 2014 12:26 EST
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday confronted Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) after he was rated as having the highest level of falsehood for his obsession with the terrorist attacks in Benghazi.
Last month, The Washington Post investigated Issas recent suggestion that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had told Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to stand down instead of letting the U.S. military fight the 2012 terrorist attack.
Issa is crossing a line when he suggests there was no response or a deliberate effort to hinder it, fact checker Glenn Kessler concluded.
A fact check last year had found that Issa was wrong to assert that Clinton approved an embassy cable in Libya because her signature was on it. In fact, the secretarys signature is stamped on all cables.
For the second time, they gave you Four Pinocchios, which is their highest level of falsehood, Wallace told Issa on Sunday.
Issa defended himself by saying he was just quoting something that was in somebody elses report when he accused Clinton of approving the embassy cable.
And in the case of the so-called stand down order, he said that the former secretary of state was responsible for the overall normalization policy in Libya.
Witnesses have told us that they asked for help, Issa opined. The president himself implied that he told Leon Panetta, then-secretary of defense, to use what efforts they could. And what we know for a fact is, not one rescue of DOD was launched to get there in that 8.5 hours.
But to be honest, you do not have any evidence that secretary Clinton told Leon Panetta to stand down, Wallace pressed.
Issa argued that he wasnt using the term stand down as it normally applied to military operations, but rather, the failure to react.
The fact that only State Department assets, and only assets inside the country were ever used, he declared. That members of the armed forces, gun-carrying trained people were not allowed to get on the aircraft to go and attempt the rescue. Those kinds of things, through State Department resources, represent a stand down.
Not maybe on the technical terms of stand down, soldier, but on what the American people believe is a failure to respond when they could have.
Watch the video below from Fox News Fox News Sunday, broadcast March 2, 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/02/fox-news-host-calls-out-darrell-issa-for-highest-level-of-falsehood-on-benghazi/
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M0rpheus
(885 posts)But it's fox, so I'll take what I can get.
pothos
(154 posts)kinda funny that it takes fox news to call him out. he's on real time with bill maher at least once a season and bill never says shit to him, and even promised issa would be off limits for his "flip a district" campaign
alp227
(32,062 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)What an asshat.
At 8:30 p.m. (Washington Time), Ambassador Stevens steps outside to bid good-bye to a Turkish diplomat, and the area around the consulate is quiet.
At 9:40, security officers at the consulate reported hearing loud noises, including gunfire, from an area near the front gate.
At 10 p.m., the assault on the main gate began in earnest.
At 10:15 p.m., the front gate had been breached and the main building came under fire.
10:15 - 10:45 p.m., Information Management Officer Sean Smith is killed.
12:00 a.m., The mail building comes under intense fire, with two Americans killed and two wounded.
2:30 a.m., American and Libyan Security Personnel manage to secure the consulate. At some point between 10:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m., Ambassador Stevens is killed.
The entire assault lasted just slightly longer than four hours.
Cha
(297,733 posts)being the Pinocchio boy that he is. I hope someday we hear the last of issa's lies.