在大多数媒体都早已停止报道华盛顿特区的腐败事件后，福克斯电视台却依然意识到这确实是一个值得深入报道的“真实新闻”。
Long after the rest of the media passed on exposing the corruption in D.C., Fox knew when there was a real story.
2009年12月，我接受了尼尔·卡武托（Neil Cavuto）的采访——那是我最早进行的全国性媒体采访之一。当时我刚成为国会议员不到一年，住在朗沃思（Longworth）办公区的储物间里，睡在一个价值45美元的简易床上。卡武托之所以选择采访我，并不是因为我的名气，而是因为有一名国会议员拒绝将猪肉装载到运输车上，这一行为本身就具有新闻价值。福克斯电视台愿意报道这位来自犹他州的普通议员的“小人物故事”，因为这个事件确实非常重要。
In December 2009, I sat down with Neil Cavuto. It was one of my earliest national interviews. As a freshman who had been in Congress less than a year, I was sleeping on a $45 cot in my closet in Longworth at the time. Cavuto didn’t book me because I had a famous name. He booked me because a member who refused to load pork into an omnibus was news. Fox was willing to bring on a back-bencher from Utah because the story mattered.
作为众议院监督委员会（House Oversight Committee）的成员，当时我并不知道：在最初的媒体报道热度消退后，这个委员会将成为唯一持续关注这些腐败事件的机构。那些希望了解整个事件真相的观众都知道，他们可以在福克斯电视台找到相关信息。
As a junior member of the House Oversight Committee, I did not know then that this would become the only place some of our hearings got traction after the initial press release died down. Viewers who wanted the whole story knew they could find it on Fox.
杰森·查菲茨（Jason Chaffetz）：十年来，特勤局的种种失误充分证明了该机构仍处于危机之中。以“Fast & Furious”计划为例：奥巴马政府旗下的酒精、烟草、枪支及爆炸物管理局（Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives）故意让枪支落入犯罪分子手中，只是为了“制造更大的新闻噱头”。2010年12月14日，边境巡逻员布莱恩·特里（Brian Terry）在亚利桑那州遇害，现场发现了两把被非法带入美国的枪支。
JASON CHAFFETZ: A DECADE OF SECRET SERVICE FAILURE PROVES THE AGENCY IS STILL IN CRISIS Start with Fast & Furious. The Obama Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives deliberately let guns walk into the hands of criminals so the agency could "build a bigger case." On Dec. 14, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed in Arizona. Two of those walked guns were found at the scene.
司法部的第一反应是淡化这一事件的影响；其他媒体则简单地将其归结为一次失败的执法行动，然后便不再关注此事。但福克斯电视台始终持续报道布莱恩·特里的遭遇。我们不断追问：究竟是谁批准了这项导致一名美国执法人员死亡、数千件枪支去向不明的计划？当时我还没有成为该委员会的主席，只是其中的一名成员，但我曾亲自去过边境地区调查相关情况。
The Justice Department’s first instinct was to minimize it. Other newsrooms were happy to call it a botched sting and move on. Fox kept Agent Terry’s name on the air. We kept asking who authorized a program that ended with an American lawman dead and thousands of firearms unaccounted for. I was not yet chairman. I was a member, but I had been down on that border.
由于没有其他媒体愿意持续跟进这个事件，“Fast & Furious”计划最终被人们遗忘，布莱恩·特里的名字也仅仅成为了一个统计数据罢了。
Without a network willing to stay on the story, Fast & Furious becomes a footnote and Brian Terry becomes a statistic.
后来，特勤局的问题更加严重。到了2015年，我成为了该委员会的主席，这个本应负责保护总统安全的机构已经陷入了严重的危机：有特工翻越白宫围栏、携带刀具闯入白宫；在卡塔赫纳（Cartagena）还发生了涉及卖淫的丑闻；更有监督人员在酗酒后闯入犯罪现场……我们仔细调查了所有相关情况，举行了听证会，并指出了存在的问题。
Then the Secret Service. By 2015, I was chairman, and the agency charged with protecting the president had become an agency in crisis: a fence jumper with a knife inside the White House, a prostitution scandal in Cartagena, supervisors crashing a crime scene after a night of drinking. We looked into all of it.
该机构的回应并非是改进自身的保护工作，而是重新调出了我的旧工作申请材料，然后散布那些可能让我感到尴尬的信息。共有 45 名员工查阅了我的个人档案；一位高级官员甚至表示：“这些信息必须公开，只是为了公平起见。”这其实并不是一场人事纠纷——而是一个联邦机构利用私人信息来惩罚正在调查它的委员会。
We held the hearings. Called out the problems. The agency’s response was not to fix the protection mission. It was to open my old job application and pass around "information he might find embarrassing." Forty-five employees accessed my file. A senior official wrote that the information needed to "get out. Just to be fair."
其他媒体也对这一事件进行了报道，但福克斯电视台却长期坚持这种报复行为，直到监察长将此事以书面形式记录下来。
This was not a personnel spat. It was a federal agency using private information to punish the committee investigating it.
目前，有 3 名特勤局官员因可能存在不当行为而正在接受内部调查。别忘了美国国税局（IRS）的丑闻：在选举前夕，洛伊丝·勒纳（Lois Lerner）故意拖延对保守派组织的审查工作。当国会要求查看相关邮件时，他们却声称邮件已被删除（理由是硬盘损坏、备份磁带也“不存在”）；直到监察长介入后，才终于找到了那些被该机构坚称无法恢复的备份磁带。
Other outlets covered the fence jumper for a news cycle. Fox stayed on the pattern — and on the retaliation — long enough for an inspector general to put it in writing. 3 SECRET SERVICE OFFICIALS UNDER INTERNAL INVESTIGATION FOR POTENTIAL MISCONDUCT Let’s not forget the IRS. Lois Lerner’s shop slow-walked conservative groups before an election.
白宫称这起丑闻是虚假的；司法部也拒绝以“藐视国会”罪起诉勒纳。许多新闻机构都跟随了这一说法，但福克斯电视台却坚持自己的立场。作为委员会主席，我向全国人民宣布：勒纳不仅拒绝配合法庭传票，还隐瞒了文件被销毁的真相，并且在证据被销毁后才向国会报告情况。
When Congress asked for the emails, we were told they were gone — hard drive crash, backup tapes that "didn’t exist." It took an inspector general two weeks to find tapes the agency swore were unrecoverable. The White House called the scandal phony. The Justice Department declined to prosecute Lerner’s contempt. A lot of newsrooms took the cue.
你可以对这场政治斗争的实质提出质疑，但你无法否认邮件被故意销毁的事实，也无法否认国税局基于政治立场来选择调查对象的行为。如果房间里仅剩的“监督机制”（如媒体）早已对这一事件失去了监督作用，那么这个真相恐怕永远也不会被公之于众了。
Fox did not. As chairman I told the country the commissioner had failed to comply with a subpoena, failed to tell the truth about what had been destroyed and failed to notify Congress until after the evidence was gone. You can argue with the politics of that fight. You cannot argue with missing emails and a tax agency picking targets by ideology.
在过去二十年里，我有幸结识并与许多优秀的福克斯电视台工作人员交流过。我在福克斯电视台的“新闻编辑室”（green room）里认识了查尔斯·克劳瑟默（Charles Krauthammer）；他在节目中讨论我们正在进行的调查时，我也会认真聆听他的观点。虽然我们并不总是意见一致，但我一直非常钦佩他的勇气与坚定立场——他的声音，是我日复一日都会认真聆听的声音。
That story stays buried if the only cameras left in the room have already declared it over. I’ve been honored to know and interact with so many great Fox personalities over the last two decades. I got to know Charles Krauthammer in the Fox green room, and on the air when he talked about investigations we were running. We did not always agree. I was in awe of his strength. His was a voice I actually listened to, day after day.
福克斯新闻数字平台在5月份吸引了1.65亿独立访问者，大幅超越了其他广播媒体和新闻竞争对手。有一天，我对查尔斯说：“查尔斯，你好吗？你是我在这个地球上最喜欢的人。”
FOX NEWS DIGITAL HITS 165 MILLION UNIQUE VISITORS IN MAY TO CRUSH BROADCAST NETWORKS, NEWS COMPETITORS One day I said, "Charles, how are you? You’re my favorite person on the planet."
他回答：“很高兴见到你，杰森。你也是我在监督委员会中最喜欢的人。”我说：“我的‘世界’比你的‘世界’更广阔……”他笑着说：“嗯，我只是在客气罢了。”
He said, "Good to see you, Jason. You’re my favorite person on the Oversight Committee." I said, "My universe is bigger than your universe." He said, "Yeah, well, I’m being generous."
福克斯新闻频道于1996年10月7日正式开播。三十年后，那些丑闻的名称虽然变了，但人们想要逃避现实、选择视而不见的本能却依然存在。董事长可以发出传票，但他无法强迫全国人民都观看福克斯新闻的节目。在我担任那个委员会成员的那些年里，福克斯新闻始终是那个坚持播放相关新闻的媒体。“继续举行听证会吧，我们会把所有相关文件都带来。”
Fox News Channel went on the air Oct. 7, 1996. Thirty years later the scandals have different names. The instinct to look away does not. A chairman can issue a subpoena. He cannot make the country watch. For a lot of the years I spent on that committee, Fox was the network that still would. Keep putting the hearing on. We will bring the documents.