Is “Benghazi” Movie Just Propaganda?
Jeff Wells writes: ‘There’s one thing that needs attention in Michael Bay‘s “13 Hours: The Secret Soldier’s of Benghazi” (Paramount, 1.15), the Benghazi action thriller that screens tomorrow night with an embargo date of 1.13. And that is how much attention and cred will be paid to an alleged “stand down†order given to six military contractors from a Benghazi station chief named “Bob.†Bay’s film is allegedly non-political, but a 1.9 Murdoch-media story by Reed Tucker reports that the contractors who spoke to Mitchell Zuckoff for his book “13 Hours: What Really Happened in Benghazi,†on which the film is based, say the stand-down order “happened.†This conflicts with the 2014 findings of a Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee, which was that “there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.‒
