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9th Circuit Will Revisit "Innocence of Muslims" Takedown Order
The Associated Press, as carried by ABC News, reports that "An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena will hear arguments Monday by Google, which owns YouTube, disputing the court's decision to remove Innocence of Muslims from the popular video sharing service." At the heart of the earlier take-down order, which was the result of a 2-1 split from a 3-judge panel, is the assertion of copyright by actress Cindy Lee Garcia, who appeared in the film, but in a role considerably different from the one she thought she was playing.
Google is supported in its appeal by an unusual alliance that includes filmmakers, Internet rivals such as Yahoo and prominent news media companies such as The New York Times that don't want the court to infringe on First Amendment rights. Garcia has support from the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Musicians. If the court upholds the smaller panel's ruling, YouTube and other Internet companies could face takedown notices from others in minor video roles.
We still dont know what happened? Maybe in 2022 we'll get a senate report?
Hate to break it to you, but thats a load of bull.
It's quite possible the YOU don't know.
But that's because Faux news doesnt cover when they get proved wrong, and choose instead to keep pushing hte same myths years after being disproven.
There have been multiple congressional investigations (the count is up to 7 now) and hundreds of thousands of pages of reports (not an exaggeration).
Nearly all spearheaded by the GOP.
And they all say the same thing: The White House told the truth and the benghazi scandal as peddled by Faux News is a hoax.
Fox's response? That the House GOP is now part of the conspiracy.
Seriously. You can't make this kind of stupid up.
And let's also not forget that while they keep pushing this fake scandal, they continue to ignore the 93 deaths that occured under Bush at several dozen embassies and diplomatic enclaves, never once calling for an special investigation or committee to look into those.
Like a pair of investigative bookends, two bipartisan congressional reports arrived this year -- one from the Senate Intelligence Committee released in January, the other by the House Intelligence Committee in late November. Both came to similar conclusions about the 2012 terror attack on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi. And both represented bad news for conservative cheerleaders of the Benghazi cover-up saga, as the tandem reports released enormous amount of air from the scandal balloons.
The Senate report in January did little to quench the political thirst of hardcore Benghazi believers. Its findings, which categorically demolished the most closely-held beliefs of Benghazi true-believers, didn't stop House Republicans from establishing a select committee in May to launch yet another investigation. (Six congressional committees and an independent State Department panel had already investigated the attack, for those keeping score.) That select committee holds its second hearing this week.
Similar to five other government reports, the one released by the House Intelligence Committee on Friday said that the administration had not intentionally misled the public about what occurred during the attacks in talking points it created for officials to use in television appearances that turned out to be inaccurate. It also said that no order was given by the military to "stand down" in responding to try to save the four Americans killed in the attacks, a claim that Republicans have made based on the account of a member of the security team in Benghazi that day. ...
The report said the C.I.A. did not have an "intelligence failure" in the months before the attacks.
For a refresher from Media Matters research, what did the Senate report conclude in January?
-No Effort By Obama Administration To Cover-Up Or Alter Facts
-No Evidence Of A "Stand Down" Order
-No "Tactical Warning" Predicting An Attack
The report reaffirmed the findings of several previous investigations and once again determined that "there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria."
Fox News remained mostly silent in the wake of the report's publication, giving the report only cursory coverage while flagship news program Fox News Sunday ignored it entirely.
House Committee On Intelligence Concludes No Cover Up, No Stand Down Order In Benghazi Attack. The Republican-led House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) released the findings of a nearly two year-long investigative report into the September 2012 attacks on two U.S. facilities in Benghazi. This report, like many before it, debunked right-wing media's myths about the attacks, concluding
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.