

As the movie shows, security at the diplomatic compound was fatally thin and warning signs went unheeded. Benghazi, which has become a byword for disaster, was an avoidable tragedy, in Bay’s telling. If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder.īut that’s not really the point. Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters. And it’s unclear that any different decisions on the night of September 11, 2012-from the top brass in Washington to the CIA at the annex next door-could have saved the ambassador.įor your security, we've sent a confirmation email to the address you entered.

But there is no evidence of a “stand down” order that would have stopped American help from reaching the compound. Operatives had “tactical disagreements about the speed with which the team should depart,” according to a House accounting of the incident. Reports show that the chief CIA commander at the nearby annex in Benghazi did tell the team of American security personnel to wait before rushing to the diplomatic compound. “You will wait,” the pudgy CIA commander tells the armed operatives at the nearby base who are desperate to go help. Our American heroes are just a mile away, armed to the teeth and ready to come to the rescue.īut that’s against orders, according to Bay’s telling. Ambassador Chris Stevens is breathing in dangerous amounts of smoke. In Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, a gang of shouting, masked men storm the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, fire holes through an American flag and burn the ambassador’s opulent lodging to the ground.
