Greta Van Susteren was agog over the “breaking news” that amounted to a bunch of emails showing that the White House knew that a terror group had claimed responsibility for the attacks on Benghazi. Of course, “claimed responsibility” is not the same thing as actually being responsible but in her excitement to finger the Obama administration as having engaged in some kind of nefarious cover up, Van Susteren didn’t bother with that pesky detail. Instead, she actually blamed the Obama administration for any of her own network’s reporting mistakes.

As one of many segments on this “bombshell,” Van Susteren turned to last night's "political panel." ABC News’ Rick Klein seemed more interested in sucking up to Fox’s false narrative than in playing any kind of watchdog. And not for the first time. Klein called it “new questions about why there was such certainty from (U.N. Ambassador) Susan Rice and the administration in the aftermath.” Klein nicely parsed his words by saying, “such certainty” to give him wiggle room for the fact that Rice made it quite clear there was no certainty about had happened.

Michael Crowley, of Time, offered some real perspective. He asked, “What is the larger point here?” Although he noted that there was reason to think that people had not been completely forthcoming, he added, “I think the implication that Obama has somehow been soft or ineffectual against Al Qaeda is not really an accurate or fair one.”

Van Susteren interrupted to say the question is, “Why isn’t he (Obama) telling us what happened?” And rather than wait for him to do so, Van Susteren is right behind her network’s attempts to sensationalize every moment. In fact, a building on fire was the b-roll footage right at the beginning of the segment.

But Van Susteren’s next attempt to justify the sleazy output that her network calls journalism (never mind the “fair and balanced” part) was a jaw dropper:

Look, he’s the one who’s not putting – he’s the one who’s creating this vacuum. He’s the one who has the information who could tell us. He’s the one who can get on TV and tell us. He’s not. And so we may be getting it wrong but if we’re getting it wrong, it’s his fault.

She even reiterated this ridiculousness:

If we have it wrong, you know, if we’re taking the wrong assumptions from the written word that we have, I blame the administration because they’re the ones that had the information. They’re the ones who represent the American people and they’re the ones who created this problem for themselves.

And I suppose it’s ACORN’s fault that Fox promoted the phony pimps videos. And it’s the DOJ’s fault that Fox spent so much time hyping the debunked New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.

But in that case, who’s fault is it, Greta, for the Iraq’s WMD story?

I'll be the first to agree that I think the Obama administration should be more forthcoming and that its response so far has been less than impressive. But that's absolutely no excuse for the kind of inflammatory finger pointing going on at Fox. And it's even worse to pretend it's the Obama administration's fault.

Media Matters has more on the emails and Van Susteren's over-the-top response.

You can tweet Van Susteren at @GretaWire. Crowley at @CrowleyTime and Klein @RickKlein