I’m still waiting to hear what happened to the 27 surviving witnesses that were hidden from the media. I find it curious that no one in the media is interested in learning who they are and what they were doing there.
Yep!!
They are being silenced for political reasons.
Threatened.
The movie was a little incomplete about that. The initial background into panels suggest they were there to "monitor the weapons depots as the situation deteriorates".
Yeah, but WHY..?
Of course to plunder the more serviceable weapons of Khaddafi's arsenal and then transfer them.
At another juncture they perform a MANPADS missile buy with a local warlord, then cut to HQ, where they admonish that they wish to BLOW UP his main stash.
But that, too, is wrong:
They key aim was to scoop up the best weapons and then transfer them.
But that wasn't in the movie.
It's like some theoretical Jason Bourne film in which he is fighting through a chaotic world, but in this version more acceptable to libs there are no dark Treadstone machinations, back in DC.
But of course those Bourne films show DC treachery in very exotic, almost twisted, detail.
If Michael Bay was to continue to have a film career, he had to stick the men in a tight, sterile political vaccuum, and we here at FR with all our unusual tools fill in the many blanks.
I'm not sure if the outside world does that, however.
“I’m still waiting to hear what happened to the 27 surviving witnesses that were hidden from the media.”
Any idea who they are? If they’re people with jobs they don’t want to lose that might be a reason. Also, lots of people sign non-disclosure agreements, or the info they have is classified and they don’t want to go to jail.
I saw the film and highly recommend it. CNN tonight tried to discredit it. Poppy had David Brock on who said it was a fabrication, not true, that they were told to "stand down." She had none of the survivors on her show to counter him.
The fact remains that assistance was close but none arrived. Planes could have gotten there in 20 min.
They had to be CIA in the CIA complex two miles from the outpost where Chris Stephens was staying. They talk, their retirement goes up in flames.
I’m still waiting to hear what happened to the 27 surviving witnesses that were hidden from the media. I find it curious that no one in the media is interested in learning who they are and what they were doing there.
Really, after just finishing the book, the actual story of the Battle is complete. There were clearly those at the annex if not the compound who did nothing to help and maybe a lot to exacerbate the situation, but there isn’t anything missing about the battle.
It sounds like a lot of the state department and CIA people were little more than in the way during battle, but for many that may have been because they weren’t trained for anything useful in an attack.