CIA Spokesman Slams ‘13 Hours’ as ‘Distortion’ of Benghazi Events

Variety via Drudge ^ | January 15, 2016 | Ted Johnson

[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."

[nikos1121]

“....those responsible for the movie felt the need to denigrate the courage of other Americans who served in harm’s way.”

Pray tell us who these courageous people are?

[Disestablishmentarian]

Sibel Edmonds is a whistle-blower that found a major Turkish espionage cell operating inside the FBI, with links to many government officials including William Cohen. She was squashed by the system and the spies were allowed to continue their employment.

I recommend her book. It is not political, just informative.

[Candor7]

The CIA SPIN IS TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. THE FILM WINS.

[Neoliberalnot]

So the movie says nothing about the video clintona and BO used to cover the mud ears they sanctioned?

[CitizenBob]

If “...the FBI is the ONLY remaining government agency with any believability right now...”

what happened to the evidence of felonies committed and evidence they gathered during the Clinton impeachment in the 1990s? That was supposedly “outside the scope” of the Clinton impeachment and therefore NOT permitted to be pursued during impeachment? The WSJ article:

Wall Street Journal 12/14/98 “.What will be the next shoe to fall? Judiciary Counsel David Schippers warned that “we uncovered more incidents involving probably direct and deliberate obstruction of justice, witness tampering, perjury and abuse of power,” but desisted in raising these incidents because the Justice Department and Independent Counsel said investigations were nearing completion. Democrats cried foul, but the history of the President personally and his Administration generally gives every reason to expect a lot more secrets remain to be exposed. Across town from the Judiciary Committee as it took its historic vote last week, for example, a federal judge was dealing with the Administration’s handling of some 900 FBI files, an incident on which the President has supposedly been “exonerated.” When Ken Starr said last month he wouldn’t send a Filegate impeachment referral to Congress, it merely indicated he had found no evidence that President Clinton himself had been involved in the handling of the files. He didn’t say the case was closed...There is also the campaign-finance shoe. We have before us a magazine called China Today, a Communist organ out of Beijing. And on the August cover of China Today is a new national hero, Ng Lap Seng. He’s the famous figure from the campaign finance hearings who was sometimes known as Mr. Wu. Mr. Ng, recall, was the shadowy Macau moneyman who funneled more than $900,000 through Charlie Trie to the Clinton re-election effort. Our Micah Morrison reported in February on Mr. Ng’s ties to both Asian organized crime and the People’s Liberation Army in Macau. The China Today cover story highlights Mr. Ng’s services for the home team. No mention of the Clinton scandals, of course, but we do learn that Mr. Ng has received another in a series of Chinese government plums, appointment to the Preparatory Committee for the Macau Special Administrative Region — the group that will carve up the Portugal-administered enclave as it is handed over to the Communists in December 1999. Indeed, the skies keep opening up even as the impeachment hearings proceed. Last week, Rep. Lindsey Graham revealed how in the days after Mr. Clinton suggested to a credulous Sidney Blumenthal that Monica Lewinsky was “stalking” the President, allies such as Rep. Charlie Rangel began suggesting that “the poor child” had “emotional problems” and was “fantasizing.” This would have been Miss Lewinsky’s reputation today, thanks to the President’s efforts, had she not saved the semen-stained dress, thanks to advice from Ms. Tripp...”

[NKP_Vet]

The CIA is still, after all these years, a leftist front organization. No way they’ll say anything positive about a movie that disparages Obama or Hillary Clinton.

[The All Knowing All Seeing Oz]

Military Intel Rule #14:

Listen to the guys in the foxholes.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The CIA screwed the pooch that night. Barry had a big reelection coming up and everybody except those security contractors was afraid to do anything that would rock Barry's boat. This "spokesman" is regurgitating the DemocRAT line of BS. 13 Hours is not the only book out there that speaks about about Obama and Clinton's "Stand Down at Benghazi".

[Founding Father]

Your line about the FBI having believability is the funniest read I’ve had in 20 years. Have you ever heard of Waco, Ruby Ridge, Olympic bomber, Wm. Clinton?

[Lera]

He is a muslim convert too

[keat]

Beautiful post. Deserves to be highlighted and saved.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

flak so thick you could get out and walk on it.

[piasa]

Her associates...

Daniel Ellsberg, Former official, U.S. Departments of Defense and State

This is the guy who helped bring about the abandonment of S Vietnam to the communist north. He helped write the Pentagon Papers, then stole them and passed on his own work to the media as if it was gospel. More recently he set up an organization to encourage the leaking of national security information by compartmentalized government employees who are in no position to see the big picture or know what operations are in play...not through the chain of command, not through the duly elected representatives of the people, but bypassing their lawful superiors to go instead to an unelected and unvetted media that is as corrupt as any congressman ever was. This is not whistleblowing, it is lawlessness.

Katharine Gun, Former translator, GCHG, UK

Also part of Ellsberg’s fellow travelers, she went berzerk when she obtained someone else’s communication/memo requesting aid in surveillance of several nations on the UN security council. Whether the content was real or not is immaterial, as it was classified. Instead of taking her concerns to superiors to handle it, she took the classified document out of a secure location... to her house and kept it over the weekend, after which she passed it to a friend who knew some journalists. She is not a whistleblower, she is a politically motivated thief.

Larry Johnson, Former Deputy Director for Anti-Terrorism Assistance, Transportation Security, and Special Operations, Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism

A nutty member of Ray McGovern’s clique VIPS; Larry threatened a Freeper some years ago while involved in the VIPS effort to hide Iraq’s efforts to secure a post sanction source of uranium from a country where Libya was able to obtain some, a country whose uranium was supposedly kept secure by a French corporation that was also involved in the Oil For Food Voucher bribes of Saddam Hussein, as we.ll as a number of other corruption scandals.

Oh yeah, he’s also one of the folks who helped gin up the idiotic birther thing in Hawaii.

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatowski (karen@militaryweek.com), recently retired from service in the Pentagon’s Office of Near East planning

Karen is the batshit crazy shoplifting source that the late Ted “the Swimmer” Kennedy was getting his info from around the time he jumped the shark to embrace Hugo Chavez. As I recall her publisher was the communist online mag “Red Flags Weekly.” Seriously.

Ray McGovern, Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency

Ol Ray, of VIPS, was so desperate to help his bud John Kerry that he teamed up with the Alamoudi pet Joe Wilson, former ambassador to Gabon known for dining with Saddam Hussein’s Paris arms dealer and Saddam’s official Tariq Aziz on the eve of Iraqs invasion of Kuwait. Wilson was married twice, once to an alleged French intel agent deeply involved with the crook Omar Bongo of Gabon and then to the “super dooper deep cover spy” Valerie Plame who chose her hubby to go on an vacation to Niger to ferret out illicit trade from the hotel pool with glass of sweet tea in hand. That guy whose chatter to the press about his adventure didn’t match his sworn testimony. Yeah, that Valerie, whose case resulted in a witch hunt for Cheney through the setup and framing of Cheney’s aide Scooter Libby for an offense - releasing the identity of the legendary Valerie Turned out it was Armitage, aide of the Obama-voting Colin Powell, who has apparently had a chip on his shoulder over criticism that he should have let Schwarzkopf finish off the Iraqi Republican Guard.
In recent days Ray’s pal Wilson has turned up in the Hillary scandals, still trying to make investment deals in African gold mining and heavy metals interests.

Coleen Rowley, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation.

She wrote a CYA memo 9 months after 9/11 which was leaked by the senate intel committee ...turned out she a lawyer had failed to guide agents on what type of warrant to seek to search Moussoui’s belongings...she wasted no time going pinko and getting all wrapped up with the Cindy Sheehan crowd.

Yup... this is your whistleblowers’s gang in all their altruistic glory.

[littleharbour]

“Bob’s” stand-down order was bad enough. But the real betrayal was the order - which could only have come from Obama - to prevent American forces from being scrambled to defend those who were under fire at the CIA Annex.

[M Kehoe]

Tripani's credibility is questionable at best.

5.56mm

[Disestablishmentarian]

I strongly recommend Sibel Edmonds’ book, as I said before—detailing extreme corruption inside the FBI including an extensive espionage cell with ties to Turkey and to many U.S. public officials. It is really quite disturbing. You do not seem to have read it.

We lost 55,000 Americans in Vietnam, and gained nothing. Not sure how many more you wanted to sacrifice, as we were nowhere close to victory at any time.

BTW, I am not at all convinced Obama was born in Hawaii, so your bringing that up as part of your attack on Edmonds (kind of a stretch in any event) does not add weight to your argument.

[Enlightened1]

Ryan Trapani code name Pinocchio....

[archy]

Why is the CIA commenting at all on a Hollywood creation???

It's one of the ones they didn't finance....

[Freedom56v2]

caught the matinee on Sat. Most every one looked PO and disgusted, but not at the movie.

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I saw it yesterday—it was worth the time and money to go see. I will buy the DVD when it is available—and I hope that is right before the election this fall ;)

[Jeff Head]

Here's my review and recommendation of the movie, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.

The movie has very course language and extreme violence. But it is true to life and not gratuitous. I normally would not see, let alone recommend an R Rated movie...but in this case every adult American should know what happened in Benghazi.

I have two requests.

The first is to God in Heaven that He will see that Justice is served on those who failed their countrymen so horribly for pure political expediency.

The second is to all fellow Americans, to make sure that those people, particularly Hillary Clinton, who abjectly lied about these events for political reasons, NEVER be allowed to have the reigns of power like she so desperately craves. In such a position, she would surely do even much worse...as if this travesty was not bad enough.

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