Fox News is firing shots at House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) after he criticized conservative attempts to delegitimize the Committee's report on Benghazi.

In November, the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee released the results of a two-year investigation that “debunk[ed] a series of persistent allegations,” pushed by conservative media, about the 2012 attacks on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi. Several Republican lawmakers publicly denounced the report, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who said on CNN that he thought the report “is full of crap.” Talking Points Memo reported on December 12 that Rogers “brushed off” criticism from fellow Republicans unsatisfied with his committee's findings: 

The Weekly Standard also published a piece quoting a number of members arguing that the Bengahzi report was incomplete. Rogers said those comments were just because the outcome wasn't what those members wanted.

“First of all, they didn't read the report. And unfortunately people wanted this report to be the expansive Benghazi report,” Rogers told TPM and other reporters right after the Christian Science Monitor Breakfast. “I told everyone, including some members on my committee that it was not going to be an expansive Benghazi report. My jurisdiction -- the committee's jurisdiction was the lane of the intelligence community. So I think they wanted a report to come out to go after the State Department or the White House. That was not my goal. I put no piece of information in a finding if we couldn't corroborate the information. So one piece of testimony is not corroboration. I had to have other corroboration in order to do it.”

Rogers said that none of the criticism has been on the findings.

Fox News host Andrea Tantaros responded by suggesting Rogers manipulated the report's conclusions to protect his wife, who was “doing some consulting on security on the ground at the time” of the Benghazi attacks. From the December 12 edition of Fox News' Outnumbered (emphasis added):

TANTAROS: And there's also questions about Mike Rogers, because he put out that report recently. And some Republicans on the committee are very unhappy with him. They have questions. 

So he put out this report where he said, oh, nothing happened here, nothing to see here. No Republicans endorsed it. Wasn't his wife doing some consulting on security on theground at the time? So this isn't just a partisan issue. And it is, it is an issue now because the State Department just this week, and we talked about this a couple days ago, Harris, reported that our embassies are still not secure. So in the wake of the torture memo, have we learned anything?

Tantaros' attacks represent a new, more aggressive angle in Fox's ongoing attempt to discredit the report's findings.