US mainstream media helped Obama cover up the pre-planned attack on September 11, 2012—the anniversary of 9/11—on the US Consulate in Benghazi by an al-Qaeda linked raiding party armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

The party consisted of more than 100 combatants and a score of military vehicles. A US predator drone watched the attack and the heroic efforts of defenders who were killed.

The attack was seen in real time by the CIA, the US military and relevant officers in the White House. News and intelligence organizations, and the Libyan government, saw and knew what happened. US military forces could have saved the lives of Ambassador Stephens and the other Americans who were killed by the terrorists. Videos of the attack exists.

But President Obama, his spokesman, Secretary Hillary Clinton and the UN Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice maintained for almost two weeks that it was not a terrorist attack but spontaneous violence caused by an anti-Muslim film. The mainstream US media only began to mention the attack last week.

The news pages and news hours of the mainstream media of the world’s model for democracy and truthful journalism, almost as body, hid what happened in Benghazi from the American people to help their candidate win. This is a lesson in medis unworthiness the world should not forget.