Fox News Figures Sit On Advisory Board Of Group Pushing For Benghazi Select Committee

Three Fox News personalities currently sit on the advisory board of Secure America Now, a conservative advocacy group that has called for a select committee to investigate the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Fox News has heavily promoted calls to form a select committee on Benghazi alongside nonstop misinformation about the attacks.

John Bolton, Pat Caddell and Mike Huckabee are all listed as members of the group's advisory board. Bolton and Caddell are Fox News contributors, while Huckabee hosts his own show on the network on weekends.

Secure America Now's president, Allan Roth, said the group would market a new web video “far and wide and continue our campaign to get the Congress to appoint a Select Committee” to investigate the attack. Roth appeared on Fox host Sean Hannity's radio show on September 11 to promote the video and told him, “I just want to thank you for being one of the rare members of the news media who has dedicated time and the effort to keep the Benghazi story alive.”

Hannity, of course, has relentlessly pushed myths and falsehoods about the attack.

Fox News has repeatedly promoted efforts to force the House to convene a select committee,even though the issue would be highly unlikely to survive a floor vote due to opposition from Democrats and some Republicans.

Former Rep. Allen West (R), a Fox contributor, appeared at a press conference outside the Capitol on Wednesday organized by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) to push for the formation of a select committee, and also advocated for a military strike on Libya in retaliation for the Benghazi attack.