http://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/fox-wastes-no-time-flogging-latest-sharyl
Maxwell has testified under oath before the House oversight committee investigating Benghazi, and never before mentioned any of this.
Also this, from Media Matters:
FoxNews.com reported that Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) had confirmed "that Maxwell told him and other lawmakers the same story when they privately interviewed him last year." The claim is absent from the House Oversight Committee'sBenghazi Attacks: Investigative Update Report on the Accountability Review Board, which was based in part on Maxwell's 2013 testimony.
Attkisson and her new benefactors at the Heritage Foundation have serious political reasons to try and smear Hillary Clinton as well as this administration. You would think that this "bombshell" evidence would have been brought before the committee via his written statement or oral testimony, but there was nothing.
So either Chaffetz thought it would be cute to overlook the claim in the first round of hearings to sandbag now in advance of the midterm elections and upcoming 2016 election season, or there's really nothing there.
I suspect it's both. There's nothing there, but a disgruntled and angry diplomat who wants his "good name" restored is willing to invent it to assist the investigators who desperately want dirt on their political opponents.
It's pretty pathetic, actually. The only bombshell in this report is the one that explodes in Attkisson, Chaffetz and Fox News' face.
