Fox News: What happened to its Benghazi exclusive?
By Erik Wemple, Updated: May 3, 2013
WashPost
Eighteenth in an old-but-suddenly-revived series about Fox News’s Oct. 26 story on Benghazi, Libya.
Over three nights earlier this week, Fox News’s “Special Report with Bret Baier” presented a special report on Benghazi. The three-parter went high on theatricality, with Fox News correspondent Adam Housley interviewing an unnamed and unrecognizable “special operator” who “watched the events unfold and has debriefed those who are part of the response.” A killer source, in other words.
In his wrap-up of the series on Wednesday night, Housley made clear that this “special operator” is the first to have placed himself in front of a camera to share his views and recollections. It was highly watchable television, right smack in the mold of a Roger Ailes product.
The executive summary of the series consists of the following:
No. 1: The U.S. military could well have responded to the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi. The initial assault began at about 9:40 p.m. Benghazi time on Sept. 11, 2012, and a second attack on a CIA annex nearby unfolded more than seven hours later. Said the source to Fox News: “We had the ability to load out, get on birds, and fly there at a minimum stage. C-110 [military aircraft] had the ability to be there, in my opinion, in four to six hours from their European theater to react.”
(More here.)
WashPost
Eighteenth in an old-but-suddenly-revived series about Fox News’s Oct. 26 story on Benghazi, Libya.
Over three nights earlier this week, Fox News’s “Special Report with Bret Baier” presented a special report on Benghazi. The three-parter went high on theatricality, with Fox News correspondent Adam Housley interviewing an unnamed and unrecognizable “special operator” who “watched the events unfold and has debriefed those who are part of the response.” A killer source, in other words.
In his wrap-up of the series on Wednesday night, Housley made clear that this “special operator” is the first to have placed himself in front of a camera to share his views and recollections. It was highly watchable television, right smack in the mold of a Roger Ailes product.
The executive summary of the series consists of the following:
No. 1: The U.S. military could well have responded to the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi. The initial assault began at about 9:40 p.m. Benghazi time on Sept. 11, 2012, and a second attack on a CIA annex nearby unfolded more than seven hours later. Said the source to Fox News: “We had the ability to load out, get on birds, and fly there at a minimum stage. C-110 [military aircraft] had the ability to be there, in my opinion, in four to six hours from their European theater to react.”
(More here.)
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