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CIA Spokesman Slams ‘13 Hours’ as ‘Distortion’ of Benghazi Events
Variety via Drudge ^ | January 15, 2016 | Ted Johnson

Posted on 01/17/2016 7:23:06 AM PST by G Larry

A spokesman for the CIA is criticizing the Michael Bay movie "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" as a "distortion of the events and people who served in Benghazi that night."

The spokesman, Ryan Trapani, was quoted in an exclusive Washington Post story, which also features an interview with the CIA chief in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, when Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed in a siege of the diplomatic compound and attack on the CIA annex.

"No one will mistake this movie for a documentary," Tripani told the Post. "It's a distortion of the events and people who served in Benghazi that night. It's shameful that, in order to highlight the heroism of some, those responsible for the movie felt the need to denigrate the courage of other Americans who served in harm's way."

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To: G Larry

This “Bob” guy, who unlike the 3 guys s who ran to the sound of the guns, and who will not come out of the shadows, is nothing more than a mouth for Hillary and Obama!


41 posted on 01/17/2016 8:10:53 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: G Larry

He’s just “Following Orders”.


42 posted on 01/17/2016 8:14:15 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: All

Didn’t Brennan convert to Islam in 2012???????


43 posted on 01/17/2016 8:14:34 AM PST by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: G Larry

Precisely. If he wants to talk distortion, let’s talk Hillary’s lies to the family, and Susan Rice and Barack Obama lying to the public about a video. They left those people to die in Benghazi for their own personal political benefit. Now late emails are saying that the military did have troops ready to go and the State Department gave no permission for a rescue mission. It was part of the Obama narrative that terrorism was dead - and that was a complete lie, and Benghazi proved it. The contempt they showed for the American citizen, to proffer baldface lies to every citizen, on every medium that only served to help their political careers, and then slept while these men gave up their lives protecting America.

So this complaint is fraudulent.


44 posted on 01/17/2016 8:16:21 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: RummyChick
About how many were in the theater for that showing?

I'll field that question.

I went to a 7:20pm showing on Sat., and only the front row was empty. And I live in a purple part of NYS.

45 posted on 01/17/2016 8:23:25 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

“the audience was silent at the end.”

the same faces I saw at the end of Passion of the Christ. No one wanted to talk..


46 posted on 01/17/2016 8:25:20 AM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: G Larry

The cia works for the traitor. The traitor allowed Americans to die so as not to annoy his true friends. I expect no truth from the traitor or his minions.


47 posted on 01/17/2016 8:32:23 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Da Coyote
Sorry, but the FBI is the ONLY remaining government agency with any believability right now.

Seriously? Richard Jewell and Steven Hatfill immediately come to mind. The FBI's absolute refusal to investigate anything Clinton related is another reason I think the FBI is nothing more than an elected official's attack dog..

48 posted on 01/17/2016 8:33:25 AM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe)
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To: G Larry

This is so utterly pathetic journalism. Really? Think the people who are guilty are going to go “Oh yeah, we screwed this up big time”

We know from Hillary’s emails there was a rescue effort “spinning up”.

Who stopped that rescue effort an why? Could it be that O was more worried about a “Blackhawk Down” incident less their 60 days from his re-election then doing his duty as CIC?


49 posted on 01/17/2016 8:35:58 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Actress Valerie Hobson was married to Profumo from 1954 until her death in 1998.


50 posted on 01/17/2016 8:43:35 AM PST by JohnnyP
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To: G Larry

Because all those spec ops warriors who were there are such liars and without the slightest shred of honor.


51 posted on 01/17/2016 8:53:02 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: G Larry

Where were the CIA spokesmen when that Valerie Plame movie came out a few years ago?


52 posted on 01/17/2016 8:58:05 AM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: G Larry
"No one will mistake this movie for a documentary,"

And yet liberals do that all the time with the horseshiite that fat slob moore excretes. And I would trust this way beyond moore's excrement.

53 posted on 01/17/2016 9:01:18 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: G Larry

FR article about the WaPo article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3384101/posts

Direct link to WaPo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/former-cia-chief-in-benghazi-challenges-film-version-of-2012-attack/2016/01/15/9cf2defc-baf7-11e5-b682-4bb4dd403c7d_story.html

Interesting: the libs barely stirred over the book. For the movie from same, different story.


54 posted on 01/17/2016 9:03:24 AM PST by upchuck (Killary is the poster girl for everything wrong with our government. h/t Mister Da)
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To: G Larry

Maybe its “An Inconvenient Truth”


55 posted on 01/17/2016 9:23:49 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: RetiredArmy
I forget which one of them [the nobamas] wears the pants in that family and has the "goods" between the legs.

There are some that believe they both do :)

56 posted on 01/17/2016 9:26:28 AM PST by upchuck (Killary is the poster girl for everything wrong with our government. h/t Mister Da)
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To: upchuck

So who shut down the air support that was clearly available early on?

All military experts agree that our guy was lazing the targets for an airstrike, and would NEVER have done so without clear understanding that those assets were overhead.


57 posted on 01/17/2016 9:31:50 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: G Larry
Hey ... CIA 'spokesman' spinmeister Ryan ...


58 posted on 01/17/2016 9:34:38 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: G Larry

a distortion doesn’t mean it’s not true...


59 posted on 01/17/2016 9:36:40 AM PST by stylin19a
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To: ClearCase_guy
The CIA is complaining about the Benghazi movie? Well, they would, wouldn't they?

The flak is always the heaviest when you're directly over the target ...


60 posted on 01/17/2016 9:38:46 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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