http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/09/17/fox-host-baselessly-escalates-latest-benghazi-c/200783
Fox News' embellishments of discredited journalist Sharyl Attkisson's latest Benghazi conspiracy theory have become increasingly detached from reality, most recently morphing into absurd allegations that Hillary Clinton supporters "scrubbed" documents to hide evidence of a supposed State Department effort to funnel weapons to the Islamic State militants in a "mini-Iran Contra" scenario, or, as Fox puts it, "the holy grail" of scandals.
After Attkisson highlighted disgruntled former State Department employee Raymond Maxwell's speculating (he "couldn't help but wonder") that State Department staff "scrubbed" damaging Benghazi documents before the initial investigation, it took just hours for Fox's coverage of the claims to morph from reiteration into full-blown allegations that Hillary Clinton's office had facilitated the destruction of key documents in violation of federal law.
Fox's own Bill O'Reilly raised doubts about whether Attkisson's story constituted a scandal, but Fox's morning show kept the conspiracy drumbeat alive on September 17 edition of Fox & Friends, escalating the speculative claims to even greater heights. Co-host Brian Kilmeade and Fox News contributor Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer speculated that the allegedly removed documents would prove that the State Department enabled an Iran-Contra-like scenario by facilitating the transfer of weapons to Islamic State militants. Insisting that "all roads lead to principal officers," Shaffer imagined that the supposed documents may hide a "direct link" to what he called a "holy grail" of Benghazi allegations, and Kilmeade concluded that "this is almost like a mini Iran-Contra thing":
SCHAFFER: Some of these documents we're talking about were probably the direct link to some of the bad incidents, to include the holy grail here that nobody wants to talk about -- is the obtaining of weapons from the Libyan rebels, moving them out of the country, to the Turks, through Turkey to the Syrian rebels, some of those rebels ended up being the ISIS threat we're now facing.
KILMEADE: So you mean this is almost like a mini Iran-Contra thing.
SCHAFFER: Absolutely.
did anyone inform then these disgraceful scandals were committed by their party and Iran-Contra was their golden boy twice removed for compromising and raising taxes when someone told them, Ronald (used to couldn't do no wrong) Reagan's baby and Watergate disgraces forced to resign Richard (tricky dick) Nixon's claim to fame. if you're going to sling mud try to be careful it's not your own you're slinging. DUH it's tough when you tell so many lies it get hard to distinguish which ones are which and whether you already used it up.
