Will Pre-Election Benghazi Movie Produced by Hillary Donor Tell the Truth?

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Michael Bay (Transformers, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon) is in talks to direct 13 Hours based on the Mitchell Zuckoff book “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi” which leaned on interviews with the men who were there.

The book is a ground level account of events. It tried to avoid the debates about Hillary Clinton and Obama by focusing narrowly on the personnel. It did however address the delayed response.

The White House has long maintained, for instance, that no one was prevented from coming to the aid of the diplomats and security officials under attack at the compound. But the CIA contractors describe in agonizing detail how they were forced by their base chief to wait at the CIA annex before responding to the desperate pleas for help from their countrymen a half-mile away. “If you don’t get here soon, we’re all going to die!” one of the Americans trapped at the compound said over the radio.

After waiting in idle vehicles for several minutes, fully dressed and armed for battle, one contractor shouts to the CIA base chief: “Hey, we gotta go now! We’re losing the initiative!” The base chief, on the phone trying to get a local militia to respond instead, replies: “No, stand down, you need to wait.” Eventually the team grew so frustrated they defied the chief’s orders and raced to the fighting.

The Obama administration has abandoned its claims that the attacks grew out of protests in front of the facility—a wise move considering that the CIA contractors who drove past the compound around 8:30 p.m. report that “all was quiet.” It continues to maintain, though, that an Internet video played a role in triggering the attacks. The contractors “neither saw nor heard anything to suggest that anyone in Benghazi was upset about an offensive YouTube video clip from an anti-Muslim movie.”

It’s certainly dramatic stuff. And it looks set to be a high profile movie. The timing could very well make this  a pre-election movie.

The question is what is that movie going to look like. Bay has a bit of a Republican rep, but he’s mostly apolitical and met with Obama. It’s being produced by Erwin Stoff who is a reliable Dem donor and seemingly donated to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

The actual script was written by Chuck Hogan who appears to have donated to Elizabeth Warren. On Twitter he has claimed that, “No BS politics in the book, just an account of actual American heroes.”

Whether he’ll bring any politics into it is open to question. His Twitter feed makes it clear that he really hates Republicans. There’s no doubt that Hillary’s people are going to be concerned and attempt to influence a movie that could have an impact on their candidate even if it never mentions her name. And by Hillary people, we’re talking Media Matters and the extensive David Brock network which already managed to shut down a Hillary series on one of the big three networks and a Hillary doc on CNN.

Best case scenario, the movie doesn’t add in any nonsense about a YouTube video, doesn’t change the book’s account of the fact that they rushed in despite being held back and doesn’t hide the fact that the mission was never properly protected.

Worst case scenario, it makes Hillary into the hero. That’s why it’s important to keep an eye on the project and be quick to debunk it.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    “Worst case scenario, it makes Hillary into the hero.” No, I think the worse case scenario will be that it will make her a victim of her staff’s incompetence and dalliance. After all, the compound was overrun and the four men killed — in spite of her “best efforts.” (Which, in fact, were nil.) So, the line will go: “Vote for HIllary, she was a victim, too!” I don’t trust Hollywood.

  • Tom

    More lies by Hillary and company.
    I look at this woman and I see PURE EVIL, just like I see in President Obama.

    BOTH ARE PATHOLOGICAL LIARS as well as socialist communists.
    I would never spend my God-blessed money on Satan’s tools…………
    NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

  • actionsspeaklouder

    Tell the truth????? Not if they are democrats.

  • infidella

    Sticking with the false narrative of a youtube video makes the film fiction and undermines the true reason for the attack.
    Americans are Infidels.

  • bob e

    can’t add to any comments here .. ongoing destruction of the usa ..
    makes me very sick .. it is all forced down our throats ..