DERPOn this fine Monday morning, Jim Hoft, fabled Dumbest Man on the Internet (also known as the Stupidest Man on the Internet, or SMOTI), decided it was time to circulate a huge, blatant lie about Benghazi, with a screaming headline about a BREAKING REPORT SMOKING GUN! at Fox News that is completely false:

BREAKING REPORT=> SMOKING GUN! US Was Running Weapons Thru Benghazi to Syria | the Gateway Pundit

It’s a flat out lie, folks. The Fox News report is one of their usual nothing-burgers, trying to pump up yet another Benghazi story that contains nothing new or interesting, but it absolutely does not make the claim that the US was running weapons to Syria. Here’s how Dim Jim describes it in his typical semi-literate style:

FOX News confirmed today that the US ran guns from Benghazi to Syria before the attack on the US consulate on September 11, 2012.

The US Ambassador to Libya and three others were killed in the terrorist attack.

The Obama administration was running weapons to Syria.

FOX News reported Monday that the US was sending guns to Banias and Borj Islam, Syria before the Benghazi terrorist attack.

US Intelligence agencies were fully aware that weapons were moving from the terrorist stronghold in Libya to Syria before the attack that killed four Americans…
September 16, 2012 DIA Memo copied to the National Security Council, CIA, and others concluded the Benghazi terrorist attack was planned at least ten or more days in advance…

The memo also tied the attack to 9-11… No discussion of a demonstration or anti-Mohammad video.

US officials were aware that weapons were being shipped to Syria by the Port of Benghazi.

The US was in fact running guns from Benghazi to Syria when the annex and consulate were attacked.

Senator Rand Paul questioned Hillary Clinton about this gun running program back in January 2013 during her testimony on the Benghazi terrorist attack.

Hillary Clinton said she did not know about the program while testifying under oath.

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Rand Paul accused the Obama administration in January 2013 of running guns to Syrian rebels.
Rand Paul was right.

No, Jim, Rand Paul was not right, and Hillary Clinton said she didn’t know about “the program” because there was no “program.”

Hoft even quoted the line that debunks his dishonest post:

US officials were aware that weapons were being shipped to Syria by the Port of Benghazi.

That’s what the Fox report says; that US officials were aware that weapons were being shipped from Libya to Syria. It does not say the US was shipping those weapons — and in fact, the report actually quotes a CIA official who specifically says the US was NOT involved in shipping those weapons.

So Fox News didn’t “confirm” this at all; Jim Hoft deliberately misrepresented this report. Please spread the word and retweet this post, to push back against yet another attempted lie by this incredibly dishonest right wing hack.

Here’s the video clip from Fox, so you can see for yourself:

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