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Columnist Charles Krauthammer on the
“O’Reilly Factor” Tuesday night said the “biggest scandal of all”
regarding the Benghazi attacks on Sept. 11, 2012, has yet to emerge.
“I think there is a bigger story here,
here’s the one that will in time come out,” Krauthammer said. ”The
biggest scandal of all, the biggest question is: What was the president
doing in those eight hours?”
“He had a routine meeting at five
o’clock. He never after, during the eight hours when our guys have their
lives in danger, he never called the Secretary of Defense, he never
calls the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never calls the CIA
Director,” Krauthammer continued. “Who does he call? About five hours in
he calls the Secretary of State. And after the phone call she releases a
statement essentially about the video and how we denounce any
intolerance. It looks as if the only phone call was to construct a cover
story at a time when the last two Americans who died were still alive
and fighting for their lives. There’s the scandal and that has to be
uncovered.”
Krauthammer’s thoughts come as the Obama administration is in the throes of several other scandals, including the IRS targeting conservative groups and two cases of the Department of Justice conducting investigations into leaks that involved obtaining Associated Press reporters’ phone records and the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen.
Also on the show, Krauthammer addressed
Attorney General Eric Holder who has been under fire for how the
Justice Department obtained information regarding members of the media
for its investigations.
Krauthammer said he thinks Holder
“would have to go because he is a liability to the president.” A couple
weeks ago, President Barack Obama said he had “complete confidence in Eric Holder as attorney general.”
Krauthammer acknowledged Obama’s support for Holder but said “now he learns
that he clearly did not say the truth, and he can’t pretend that he
didn’t remember because he signs a lot of stuff.
“Because the release from the
Department of Justice was, he didn’t only sign the search warrant
against Rosen that essentially named him as a co-defendant, criminal
co-defendant, he actually discussed it. So he can’t say like Hillary
did, ‘Oh, I sign a lot of stuff. I can’t remember,’” Krauthammer said.
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