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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1216745" data-attributes="member: 40736"><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/20/months-after-benghazi-survivors-spoke-fox-news/193149" target="_blank">Months After Benghazi Survivors Spoke, Fox News Claims They&#039;ve Been Silenced | Blog | Media Matters for America</a>Fox&#039;s ongoing cover-up allegation is built around Sen. Lindsey Graham&#039;s (R-S.C.) <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/15/sen-graham-claims-benghazi-survivors-told-to-be-quiet-by-administration/#ixzz2NuwVgYls" target="_blank">claim</a>&nbsp; that he recently met with Benghazi survivors who said they&#039;re being&nbsp; &quot;told to be quiet&quot; about the affair. He&#039;s urging they be subpoenaed and&nbsp; forced to testify in public.In hyping the story though, Fox ignores the fact the survivors have&nbsp; already spoken to investigators, and that there are reasons to keep&nbsp; people with sensitive positions in the intelligence community from&nbsp; speaking publicly that don&#039;t involve government conspiracies. That, and&nbsp; the fact they&#039;re witnesses in an ongoing FBI investigation....They&#039;re leaving out the fact that the survivors have already spoken.&nbsp; They have already told their stories of the terror attack. And they&nbsp; have done it on the record. In fact, they&#039;ve done it twice. Within days&nbsp; of the attack, survivors were <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/19/Sen-Lindsey-Graham-wants-FBI-interviews-of-Benghazi-Survivors" target="_blank">interviewed</a>&nbsp; by FBI investigators who are currently conducting an on-going criminal&nbsp; investigation into the assault. Transcripts of those interviews have&nbsp; reportedly been <a href="https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/307992225218969602" target="_blank">made available</a> to the Senate Intelligence Committee (with some <a href="https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/309128147671076864" target="_blank">redactions</a>). Later, survivors <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/benghazi-attack-report-state-department_n_2326637.html" target="_blank">spoke to investigators</a> working for an independent review conducted on behalf of the State Department.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1216745, member: 40736"] [url=http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/20/months-after-benghazi-survivors-spoke-fox-news/193149]Months After Benghazi Survivors Spoke, Fox News Claims They've Been Silenced | Blog | Media Matters for America[/url] [I] Fox's ongoing cover-up allegation is built around Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.) [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/15/sen-graham-claims-benghazi-survivors-told-to-be-quiet-by-administration/#ixzz2NuwVgYls"]claim[/URL] that he recently met with Benghazi survivors who said they're being "told to be quiet" about the affair. He's urging they be subpoenaed and forced to testify in public. [/I] [I]In hyping the story though, Fox ignores the fact the survivors have already spoken to investigators, and that there are reasons to keep people with sensitive positions in the intelligence community from speaking publicly that don't involve government conspiracies. That, and the fact they're witnesses in an ongoing FBI investigation. ... They're leaving out the fact that the survivors have already spoken. They have already told their stories of the terror attack. And they have done it on the record. In fact, they've done it twice. Within days of the attack, survivors were [URL="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/19/Sen-Lindsey-Graham-wants-FBI-interviews-of-Benghazi-Survivors"]interviewed[/URL] by FBI investigators who are currently conducting an on-going criminal investigation into the assault. Transcripts of those interviews have reportedly been [URL="https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/307992225218969602"]made available[/URL] to the Senate Intelligence Committee (with some [URL="https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/309128147671076864"]redactions[/URL]). Later, survivors [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/benghazi-attack-report-state-department_n_2326637.html"]spoke to investigators[/URL] working for an independent review conducted on behalf of the State Department.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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