Benghazi part II

A General and Excuse and Uncovering Lies

For the first month after the attack, I was close. I got a ton of info about the hours before and after the attack on the compound in Benghazi. Friends and contacts helped me make some solid connections, but I hadn’t made the connection directly to some of the heroes that night. Friends had passed along my info, but the pressure on them was intense. I knew of threats from the US State Department and US agencies against them; if they spoke to the media or leaked anything, they faced, at the very least, prosecution. The pressure not to talk came from every direction, and that’s when he walked in.

He knew me more than I knew him. Fox has thousands of guests, and he was one of thousands. He complimented my reporting and a couple of places I had been recently, then casually mentioned he'd seen one of my reports on Benghazi and asked if I’d be interested in talking with his friend, who had been at the compound the night of the attack.

“I’d walk across the Atlantic to meet him,” I said.

“Well, I can set it up. I am good friends with one of the survivors’ fathers. I will make the connection.”