“Fox News has gone silent on Benghazi amid reports that the House Intelligence Committee concluded that there was no intentional wrongdoing in the Obama administration’s response to the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on August 1 that the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee voted to declassify findings from its investigation into the 2012 attacks on U.S diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, and “concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack,” according to committee member Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA).

The intelligence community “did not have specific tactical warning of an attack before it happened,” the process used to create administration talking points was “flawed” but “reflected the conflicting intelligence assessments in the days immediately following the crisis, and “there was no ‘stand-down order’ given to American personnel,” Ranking Member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-CA) said in a statement laying out the committee’s findings.“* Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University), Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) and Cara Santa Maria (Talk Nerdy Podcast) break it down.

*Read more here from Alexandrea Boguhn & Jeremy Holden / Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08/05/fox-news-quiet-after-congressional-report-finds/200318