" . . .but it's clear that director Michael Bay has taken sides in the debate about what happened on the ground that night. Oh yes there was a "stand-down order."
"13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is not just an entertaining movie, it's a 144-minute rebuttal to everything the Obama administration has been saying about the attack since it took place on September 11, 2012.
"The "true story" of Benghazi as told by the secret soldiers is a powerful rebuke to the "tall tales" that were told by the White House, the State Department and their defenders. There was no "fog of war" that prevented the Department of Defense from sending military assets to Benghazi -- just a foggy narrative that was created by the commander in chief and secretary of State to explain the debacle without looking weak and feckless two months before an election.
"The movie is based on the book of the same name, written by Boston University journalism professor Mitchell Zuckoff with the five CIA contractors who were on the ground in Benghazi that night: Jack Silva, Mark "Oz" Geist, John "Tig" Tiegen, Kris "Tanto" Paronto, and Dave "Boon" Benton.
" 'Jack Silva" (played by “The Office" alum John Krasinski) and “Dave Benton” (played by David Denman) are pseudonymous names because their real identities have not been revealed." . . .
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The film depicts the men's sense of abandonment over and over again.LA Times: '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,' from Michael Bay, revisits a battle
. . . " '13 Hours" indeed focuses tightly on what happened on the ground — per Bay and several writers' research — during the period a U.S. diplomatic outpost was attacked and a small group of security contractors took up arms to defend it. Among the film's core messages is the selflessness of the fighters, many of whom were near the end of their tours — and, to top it off, had to beg their disapproving CIA boss to let them put their lives on the line.
"But though explicit politicking is absent — Bay and the cast say partisan fingerpointing was far from their minds — the combination of an emotional movie with a U.S. official's death abroad could be read as a broadside against President Obama's administration and then-secretary of State Hillary Clinton — or at least be used by others to that end." . . .
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