GOPer On Fox-Touted Benghazi Book: Authors Just Want To Make Money

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., right, accompanied by the committee's ranking member Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., inform reporters about proposed changes to the National Secu... House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., right, accompanied by the committee's ranking member Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., inform reporters about proposed changes to the National Security Agency’s program of sweeping up and storing vast amounts of data on Americans' phone calls, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Details of the government's secret phone records collection program were disclosed last year by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden. Privacy advocates were outraged to learn that the government was holding onto phone records of innocent Americans for up to five years. Obama promised to make changes to the program in an effort to win back public support. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, on Tuesday shot down Fox News and a new book that claims CIA commandos were told not to rescue those at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi.

The congressman suggested that the lawyers for the five commandos who wrote the new account of the Benghazi attack were just trying to make money off of the scandal.

“The lawyers asked that none of their testimony be released until after their book was out and being sold,” he said when asked if his committee tried to intimidate the commandos during its investigation, according to ThinkProgress. “I think you have lawyers who have a financial interest in this certainly making allegations that are far from true.”

In “13 Hours,” the commandos, who were guarding the CIA annex in Benghazi, claim that the base chief told them to “stand down” and refrain from rescuing Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens despite a call for help from a diplomatic mission security officer.

The Intelligence Committee found that nobody gave a “stand down” order, and Rogers, who is retiring after the 2014 elections, reiterated on Fox News that the commander merely paused to gain better knowledge of the situation.

“It was the commander on the ground making the decision. I think it took 23 minutes before they all, including that commander, by the way, got in a car and went over and rescued those individuals,” he said.

Fox News ran a special report on Friday on the book, which makes similar claims to those pushed by the network in 2012.

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  1. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Well, DUH!

  2. OMG! A republican discovers the Teabaggers are unprincipled!

    Thanks, Congressman Obvious!

  3. So that explains the text from IHeartRadio that my finace’ received yesterday regarding Glenn Beck having new information on the Benghazi attack.

    I hope those so-called ‘commandos’ can live with themselves, creating a farce and a lie to make some money on the lives of their countrymen.

  4. Avatar for byteme byteme says:

    Guess who ISN’T going to be invited on FOX to share that information?

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