Fox News Suggests Obama Captured Benghazi Suspect To Boost Hillary’s Book Tour
Source: THINKPROGRESS
A Fox News anchor suggested that President Obama captured one of the alleged architects of the September 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi to boost Hillary Clintons presidential prospects.
Speaking on Fox News Outnumbered just moments after news broke that the United States had captured Ahmed Abu Khattala, Kennedy mused, you have a former Secretary of State who is in the middle of a high profile book tour, I think this is convenient for her to shift the talking points to some of the things she has been discussing.
The sentiment that Obama timed Khattalas capture for political benefit was quickly echoed by other conservatives. Rory Cooper, an aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, tweeted, While its great to see they caught the Benghazi suspect, its important to remember, he wasnt really hiding.
The United States filed the first criminal charges in the Benghazi attack in August of 2013. Khatalla is linked to the Islamist group Ansar al-Shariah, one of the militias that has served as the de facto military within many parts of the country since the overthrow of Libyan dictator Moamar Ghadaffi. He had previously told reporters that he had nothing to do with the attack, despite witnesses placing him at the scene during the night of the assault.
The United States has been attempting to convince the Libyan government for months now to move on the suspects, but has been unable to due to the political chaos that has gripped the country. The Libyan government has to wrestle with this idea: What would that mean to us if we apprehended some of these people, if we tried them, if we handed them over? Gen. Carter F. Ham, a former head of U.S. Africa Command, told a conference last year. Its a very, very complex issue.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/06/17/3449917/fox-news-suggests-obama-captured-benghazi-suspect-to-boost-hillarys-presidential-prospects/
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)I expected this to be coming. I also expect John McCain to come out and bark like a dog too.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)what the eff happened to the "false" concerns about the 4 American's death in B E N G H A Z I? Never was there, another effing witch hunt on going on Pres O and his admin. including, but not limited to, Hillary C.
Please vote these MFers out, please.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)To distract us from the Benghazi Scandal.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)book tour!
I mean let's just pull all sorts of random bullshit ideas out of our ass and treat them as facts.
Alex P Notkeaton
(309 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)n/t
mimi85
(1,805 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)innocent victim of Obama's wicked games!
Arkana
(24,347 posts)Obama can't win for winning with these fuckers.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)Even for Fux Noise.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Stupid would be right more often.
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)Fox "News" is a national media outlet.
Hope it helps!
No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)I see no first name in the articles.
Kingofalldems
(38,454 posts)So talented.
No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)athenasatanjesus
(859 posts)Well a good idea, but Mr. Obama and Ms Clinton, are really not that great of friends, so again Fox is trying anything to put down the Democrats...fair and balanced my ass.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)during a break between their regular Hitler and Stalin revering sessions.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)AND shutdown this Domestic Terrorist channel.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)chillfactor
(7,575 posts)by FAUX NOISE....nothing new there.....
Skittles
(153,160 posts)yes INDEED
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Seems to be the potent shit. Better send the boys over to check it out.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)6 years of lies and smears against Obama...
Where are the congressman and women calling out these bastards BY NAME ?
Wheres Joe Biden ripping Faux a new one?
Wheres Debbie Wasserman Shultz calling out BY NAME these assholes?
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)a small but influential group of people think the sky is red?
I feel like we live in the effing middle ages, where people believe crazy shit out of sheer ignorance.
I can't take Fox News anymore. Maybe if we refuse to admit they exist, they will go away. Just like Climate Change.
Cha
(297,196 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)antiGOPin294
(53 posts)What other nutty conspiracy theory will they come up with next? That Obama is hiding the Benghazi terrorist right in the White House? Sheesh...
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)so this is entirely logical thinking for them. They would have captured Bin Ladin themselves if they could figure out how to make money off it or avoid cutting off war profits.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)Just because your guy Nixon sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks and Reagan screwed over the Iranian hostages to embarrass Carter, doesn't mean that our politicians are so caviler about committing treason for political points. In fact, here the Obama administration is doing what it is SUPPOSED to be doing. (And a damn sight quicker than your boy Bush in his utter failure to get Bin Laden...)
Two hallmarks of modern conservative asshattery: the rampant projection of their faults onto all of their opponents, and the belief that politicians doing their jobs competently are merely posturing for political points.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)My mistake.
NCcoast
(480 posts)This is how Karl Rove played the media and they assume we do the same thing. Remember when Bush was going to make a state visit to the UK and there were going to be so many protesters, something on the order of 3 million, that they couldn't actually drive him to Buckingham Palace, they had to take him there by helicopter from the airport? It was going to be a public relations nightmare. The level of opposition to Bush and Poodle Boy's war of aggression was going to be inescapable. Suddenly Michael Jackson was arrested. There was no reason that arrest had to take place when it did. I'm sure someone on the GOP team chambered that one up for Karl to use whenever he thought he needed it. So, the enter state visit disappeared from mainstream media coverage. Of course the media was a partner in this dance. They know which side of the bread, in the form of media deregulation, their butter is on. So the right assumes we manipulate the media in the same fashion they do. If there's something coming you need to hide, provide a distraction. Find big events that will provide media cover which you can control the timing on. The Bush administration used this trick again and again to great advantage.