Newly-surfaced e-mails link the White House directly to false talking points that were disseminated days after the Benghazi attacks in September of 2012, but the broadcast networks ignored the story on Tuesday evening. As Judicial Watch reported, e-mails from the White House to then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice instructed her to “underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.” Fox News’s Special Report led with the story. As anchor Shannon Bream reported: “There is new evidence tonight that Obama administration aides were primarily concerned with protecting the President’s public image seven weeks before the election, and advancing the false explanation blaming an internet video for the Benghazi terrorist attacks.”

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