Benghazi Final

Terrorists still on the run

Because of my reporting and my colleagues’ reporting, several hearings were held on the Hill about what we had uncovered about the Benghazi attack, and one in particular is pretty laughable even to this day. It began months earlier, when I was sitting at my desk one day, and the phone rang. A friendly voice I’d never heard before introduced himself and said he got my phone number from a friend of a friend. He explained that he worked for Michael Bay, and he felt I had the most accurate reporting they’d seen on Benghazi

I thanked him, not realizing who he was referring to. Despite my wife being in Hollywood, I’m not a Hollywood guy, and I probably should be. While I’ve seen pretty much every Michael Bay movie, I didn’t realize he was talking about the director, and I said, “ Who’s Michael Bay? “ He kind of chuckled and said, “Oh, he’s a director. He’s done a couple of movies.”

“Which ones did I ask immediately?” Still not realizing who he was talking about.

The list is impressive, as you likely know, and I was invited over to Michael Bay‘s office in Santa Monica. He and his team had done some research and felt that I’d been the fairest and most in-depth on the Benghazi story, and also noted that I had gotten close with a number of people on the ground that night, and others connected in other ways. They were doing all their background work as they prepared the script and the shoot of the movie ‘13 Hours’.