Speaker 1: Pushkin. What I told people I was making a podcast
Speaker 1: about Benghazi. Nine times out of ten they called me
Speaker 1: a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why. I
Speaker 1: was never surprised. I know that Benghazi has a bad reputation.
Speaker 1: Benghazi the truth became a web of lies. It's almost
Speaker 1: a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. Will we
Speaker 1: ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? Bad faith?
Speaker 1: Political warfare? The regime keeps lying about it.
Speaker 2: They're not going to let this go, are they?
Speaker 1: And frankly bullshit? We kill the ambassador just to cover
Speaker 1: something up. You put two and two together. I'm Leon Napok,
Speaker 1: co creator of Slowburn. You've heard me dig into political
Speaker 1: firestorm like Iran Contra and Bush v. Gore. Now it's
Speaker 1: time for a slightly more recent scandal, one that began
Speaker 1: with the killing of a US ambassador and three other
Speaker 1: Americans in Libya. Benghazi has been contested ever since. Was
Speaker 1: it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? The forces
Speaker 1: that led up to the scandal and the marks that
Speaker 1: left on America and Libya are still coming into focus.
Speaker 1: Benghazi is a Rosetta stone for everything that's been going
Speaker 1: on for the last twenty years. Over six episodes, you'll
Speaker 1: hear what life was like in Benghazi before the attack,
Speaker 1: under the regime of Muamar Gadafi and during the revolution
Speaker 1: that brought him down.
Speaker 2: We could see the smoke of Gerdefi's convoy. It was
Speaker 2: obvious that death is coming.
Speaker 1: You'll meet the late Chris Stevens, a US ambassador, set
Speaker 1: out to redefine America's relationship with the Arab world.
Speaker 2: He was smart, he was fearless, and certainly one of
Speaker 2: the best diplomats we've ever had.
Speaker 1: And you'll hear from people who are in Benghazi. On
Speaker 1: the night of the attack, we saw it happen from
Speaker 1: close range. I could hear clearly green eights and number
Speaker 1: of shots.
Speaker 2: I turned to the ambassador and said, if they blow
Speaker 2: the locks, I'm going to start shooting, and when I die,
Speaker 2: I want you to pick up my rifle and keep
Speaker 2: on fighting.
Speaker 1: It didn't take long for the attack to become simply Benghazi.
Speaker 1: The word entered American politics before the fighting was even over,
Speaker 1: and almost fifteen years later, it hasn't really left.
Speaker 2: They said, the government is lying to you. What they're
Speaker 2: saying happened did not happen. It was a fucking mess.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 2: Everybody's looking at these coffins silently trying to figure out
Speaker 2: what just happened.
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