[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
The 22 May 2015 edition of CNN's New Day played up that the Hillary Clinton e-mails revealed by the New York Times "dispute the narrative that has been around for two years that she was trying to cover something up" about the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, as Alisyn Camerota put it. The CNN anchor also wondered, "Isn't this the opposite of what the GOP has been saying about her? That she kept it – tried to keep it secret?"
The Daily Beast's John Avlon replied asserting that "this is the problem with conspiracy theories...they run into conflict with human beings basically trying to do their best in real time." Avlon's wife, liberal Republican activist Margaret Hoover, contended that these e-mails "helps for, sort of, any election," and added that "it complicates her relationship with the Obama administration – because then, Susan Rice went on TV seven days later, and said this was about a video." Camerota replied, "From this e-mail, it seems like she knew the truth, and she didn't want to say the untruth."