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6 other times US embassies were attacked The 2012 attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya wasn’t the first time such an outpost was stormed by locals. It wasn’t even the first time one was attacked in Benghazi. The Foreign Service of the United States isn’t all handshakes, ribbon cuttings and talk. The people dedicated to improving relations with other countries while advancing U.S. foreign policy inherently put themselves at risk. U.S. diplomatic posts had been attacked with varying tactics and varying success before the infamous assault in Benghazi. Here’s how six others went down:

1900 – Peking (Beijing), China

Anti-foreign, anti-Christian sentiment combined with severe drought in China led to armed violence against foreigners in the country as well as a general uprising against all external forces. The militias were called “Boxers� in English. The Qing Empress Dowager Cixi supported the uprising as the Boxers converged on Beijing in full force, declaring war on all foreign powers. Five hundred diplomats, foreign civilians and Christians barricaded themselves inside the twosquare-mile Foreign Legation Quarter in the Chinese capital. The Boxers laid siege to the diplomatic area as German and U.S. Marine defenders kept them at bay, even under intense artillery fire. A 20,000-man relief army from eight nations invaded China — Japan, Russia, the British Empire, France, the U.S., Germany, Italy and AustriaHungary. The army marched 100 miles from Tianjin to the capital in just over two weeks. British, Russian, Japanese and French troops fought the Chinese Boxers at the city walls, trying to breach the gate. The Americans attempted to scale the walls instead of assaulting a fortified gate. Indian and Sikh troops from the British contingent were the first to break the siege of the Foreign Legation. Fifty-five of the almost 500 besieged were killed. EMBASSIES, continued on Page 12

THE HEROES OF BENGHAZI The men behind ‘13 Hours’ tell their story By Jeri Jacquin MilitaryPress

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he date of Sept, 11, 2001, is a polarizing day in American history. In a matter of moments our country stopped breathing and moving. Our perceptions changed, and what we knew to be true had to be reexamined. The world became a place many no longer recognized, and the way we lived our lives would never be the same. As each year passed, the new normal took over. We accepted taking our shoes off to go through metal detectors at the airport, having our bags checked before going into big events and keeping an eye out for one another. Americans embraced it as best we could, even if nostalgic for the days when the world’s evils were not so close to us. On Sept. 11, 2012, Americans would again experience a moment where our country stopped breathing and moving — but this time because of what was happening half a world away. In the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound and a CIA Base in Benghazi, Libya, America would once again come under attack.

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Without warning, the compound was taken over through a hail of gunfire that would start 13 hours of hell. Author Mitchell Zuckoff wrote the book “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi� recounting events on that Sept. 11th in 2012. In doing so, Zuckoff, along with the Annex Security Team inside the CIA Base, bring the truth straight from those who lived and died to tell this story. This week, director Michael Bay will bring the book “13 Hours� to the big screen in a film of the same name starring John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, Max Martini, Dominic Fumusa, Toby Stevens, James Dale, David Denman David Giuntoli, Demetrius Grosse and Christopher Dingli. I had the humble opportunity to speak with three men from the Annex Security Team, Mark “Oz� Geist, Kris “Tanto� Paronto and John “Tig� Tiegen, who were not only in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, but have put their heart and soul into both the book and film “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.� I walked in the door of the interview with my copy of the book filled with slips of Post-it notes bulking out of the top. Having a set of questions ready to go, it

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would only take moments before I realized these three men were going to speak openly and answer my questions without me having to ask. As we make our introductions, Paronto sees my book and the tabs of Post-it notes sticking out, takes it and smiles before opening it and signing it. Paronto: OK, first question! Alright, how did the decision to come about to make the film “13 Hours?� Tiegen: It all actually came about from us doing the book. We were tired of the politics of it all and wanted to make sure the truth was told and the honor was given where it needed to be given. Richard, he heard the story from these guys and knew this was going to be a movie. Paronto: We really didn’t have to do anything, and to be honest it was meant to be a movie. It seemed like a fast process from book to screen. Tiegen: Anyone we’ve ever talked to about this process says exactly that — that this is the fastest they’ve seen a book go to film to theater. Mitch (Zuckoff, writer of the book “13 Hours�) said they were BENGHAZI, continued on Page 10

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DAVID BOWIE’S ESSENTIAL MOVIE PERFORMANCES By Jessica Kiang The Playlist

The world just got a bit smaller and less wonderful, and the stars look very different today. David Bowie’s passing is an incalculable loss to the world of music, but it is also a heavy blow to the movie world. His legacy as an actor may be dwarfed by that of his era-defining, decades-spanning music career, but that says less about the former than simply proving the near-planetary size and scale of the latter. His film career was as individual and eclectic as you could hope, but running through almost every role and every performance, certainly the strongest ones, like a steady chord of impossibly long sustain, was a common note of the purest, cleanest intelligence. Oftentimes, it was an intelligence so piercing and singular as to feel almost alien: there is an otherworldly quality to the best of his roles that may not always be writ as large as it was with, say, his Ziggy Stardust persona, but it’s there. Here are some films of his you might want to seek out again as you mourn the passing of one of the most towering and deeply beloved figures of modern culture. Rest in peace, you who meant so very much, to so very many of us.

David Bowie’s death sent shock waves through the music world, but he will be missed for his film roles as well.

‘Absolute Beginners’ (1986)

“Now, my kids will watch anything, but they couldn’t watch this. Nor could their friends. I don’t think I’ve ever seen worse acting in a major British film‌ That song, in my opinion, was the only good feature of the whole film.â€? So wrote Jake Eberts, whose company Goldcrest Films financed, and was sunk by, Julien Temple’s 1950s-set musical “Absolute Beginners.â€? And by “that song,â€? he means Bowie’s theme of the same name,

obviously. Eberts isn’t entirely wrong — the film is a gigantic folly. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t fascinating, and Bowie’s performance as well as his song, are one of the movie’s major redeeming features. It’s a hot mess, dramatically and aesthetically, but it’s entirely fascinating for it, and Bowie has enormous fun as the near-satanic ad executive who takes lead Colin under his wing. Not enough of the star’s film appearances let him flex his musical muscles, but both the title track and his lizardly seductive “That’s Motivation,� atop a giant typewriter, are heads and shoulders above the rest of the movie.

‘The Hunger’ (1983)

Tony Scott’s feature debut is characteristic of the late director’s eye for a lavish visual (especially if it involved billowing curtains), but not of his soon-to-be-trademark kinetic pacing. Actually, the rhythm of his vampire love triangle is languorous to the point of labored, but the cast, including Catherine Deneuve, Bowie and Susan Sarandon, and the off-the-charts coolness factor, just about keep you there. Plus, while such a thing could conceivably feel old-hat in these vamp-saturated times, it’s key to remember that that was one of the first contemporary takes on the genre and Bowie’s inherent modernity (his 200-year-old vampire is even introduced during a performance of gothic art-rock outfit Bauhaus) certainly contributes to that. As does his essential agelessness; his vampire John suffers the horrific fate of remaining untouched by time for a couple of centuries, before suddenly and rapidly aging, without being able to die. It is certainly one of the most tragic of parts that Bowie would ever play and he seems so ideally suited to the part of the beautiful, amoral immortal, that it’s a bit of a shame he is sidelined as it progresses.

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Python� fame, rewrote the script (under protest) to allow more screen time for the character and for his songs, and when Bowie reportedly felt the script lacked humor thereafter, it was again rewritten to keep him onside. It was a flop on release, which allegedly depressed Henson so much he never directed again, and critically the reception was mixed at best. But the film developed a life on VHS thereafter and for a whole generation of sleepover-aged kids, Bowie’s Jareth, with his ’80s fright wig and “you remind me of the babe� nonsense dialogue, is one of his most indelible creations. While the Maurice Sendak-indebted film is not an out-and-out success, the casting of Bowie is kind of genius, as he brings his trademark ambiguity to making the villain both attractive and repulsive, lending the film, which is all puppets and riddles elsewhere, a slightly more grownup slant as a result.

‘The Prestige’ (2006)

It’s hard to believe there ever was or ever will be Bowie’s like again. And yet, a few times in his movie career he played real-life historical figures, and each time it made a certain kind of sense. And so somehow the news that he was to play Serbian physicist/inventor/engineer/genius Nikola Tesla (who famously worked for and then fell out with Thomas Edison over alternating vs direct current) in Christopher Nolan’s underrated adaptation of Christopher Priest’s brilliant novel, came as the kind of surprise that immediately felt unsurprising, to the point of obvious. Indeed, Nolan himself stated he couldn’t think of anyone else for the small but pivotal role, and went so far as to fly out to meet Bowie to convince him, after he’d initially turned the part down. As with all the real-life characters he played, it’s hard to tell if Bowie feels right here because he brings Tesla to life, or because he makes us ‘Labyrinth’ (1986) Unsurprisingly, perhaps, securing Bow- think that maybe Tesla was a bit like Bowie’s involvement as the Goblin King Jareth ie — mercurial and magnetic and a little was such a major feat in the development above the petty affairs of men. But whether Bowie was an actor of great of Jim Henson’s fairy tale fable “Labyrinth,� that the orbit of the film shifted versatility and range seems somewhat beside the point when he brought something slightly to accommodate him. The film’s writer, Terry Jones of “Monty that simply no one else could have. XXX NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN t FEJUPSTEFTL!NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN

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original cast members (Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer) are on board. Efforts to wrangle all six cast members for reunion stunts have proved difficult in the past, with one or more members typically resisting behind the scenes. NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt was asked if the network would have six to appear together in the same room, or if they’ll be split up throughout the episode. “I’m hoping all six will be in same room at same time, I’m not sure we can logistically can pull it off,� Greenblatt told reporters. The special will air Sunday, Feb. 21.

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CHARGERS KEEP FANS IN LIMBO By Jim Alexander OC Register

If it was a crazy day in Houston, where the NFL’s 32 owners went back and forth before reaching a consensus on Los Angeles, it seemed even harder on the emotions in San Diego. The only place where people live and die with the Chargers went from apprehension to despair, to hope, to ‌ what, exactly? At the end of the day, San Diego was in limbo. How long that lasts depends on Dean Spanos, and as undependable as Chargers fans have considered him over the last year and a half, there is no reason to believe their hearts won’t eventually be broken with finality. The decision, finally approved by a 30-2 vote of the owners — and gee, I wonder who the two dissenters were — handed the keys to Los Angeles to the Rams, whose history in the market and following already in place made that the most reasonable result. Spanos’ Carson project with Raiders owner Mark Davis earned, by a 5-1 vote, the recommendation of the Committee for Los Angeles Opportunities — which, truth be told, had been leaning toward Carson for months and had even participated in the process. But it was a flop among the larger ownership, which preferred Stan Kroenke’s vi-

sion and checkbook to the Spanos/Davis partnership with Goldman Sachs. So the decision to give the Chargers a year’s option to join the Rams in Inglewood could be interpreted two ways. It was either a bone thrown toward Spanos, who previously had insisted he had no interest in Inglewood or partnering with Kroenke, or it was one last bit of L.A. as leverage directed toward city officials in San Diego. We don’t know, but probably will soon, whether Spanos will use this opportunity to seriously re-engage with San Diego, or alternatively to pursue his own ballot initiative to determine if the city actually wants to keep its team. In the meantime, Spanos seemed unhappy when he stood before cameras and microphones, reading a prepared statement and taking one question before bailing out of the news conference. “My goal from the start of this process was to create the options necessary to safeguard the future of the Chargers franchise, while respecting the will of my fellow NFL owners,� he said. “Today we achieved this goal with the compromise reached by the NFL ownership. “The Chargers have been approved to relocate to Los Angeles at the Inglewood location,� he continued, and then stumbled over a passage regarding league assis-

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Chargers owner Dean Spanos has the option to move the team to L.A. within a year.

tance, in the form of an extra $100 million toward a new stadium “in the event there is a potential solution that can be placed before voters in San Diego. “I will be working over the next several weeks to explore those options that we have now created for ourselves to determine the best path forward for the Chargers.� The only things missing were the “14 years� and “nine stadium proposals� talking points, but then he was no longer in the position of having to sway his fellow owners. There is still a possibility the Chargers have played their last game in San Diego, just as there’s still a possibility they’ll be back for at least one more season and the entire excruciating process will resume. The Chargers reportedly will have to decide by March 23, the final day of the next league meetings, to decide whether they will play at Qualcomm Stadium in 2016, or at the Coliseum. If they stay in San Diego one more year, they will have

until Jan. 15, 2017, to make a definitive decision on joining Kroenke. If they pass on Inglewood, Davis and the Raiders will then have a year’s option to join Kroenke. San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer and board of supervisors chairman Ron Roberts, whose efforts toward a new stadium in Mission Valley were rebuffed by the Chargers, approached the latest news guardedly. “If Mr. Spanos has a sincere interest in reaching a fair agreement in San Diego, we remain committed to negotiating in good faith. We are not interested in a charade by the Chargers if they continue to pursue Los Angeles,� they said in a statement. That pretty well mirrors the mood of Chargers fans, who are alternately morose, plaintive and exhausted emotionally by the entire ordeal. They can be assured this much. It may be two months, or it may be 12 months, and it may end either well or badly. But the end of their ordeal is in sight.

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Tech. Sgt. Dwayne Farr competes in the Sea Otter Cycling Classic in 2013. Farr is one of 10 members on the Defense Department road bike racing team, and the only team member who is in the Air National Guard.

Airman balances cycling with Air Guard mission By Tech. Sgt. John Hughel 142nd Fighter Wing

“He was an incredible basketball player growing up and into high school,� said Chief Master Sgt. Don Brice, the 142nd Fighter Wing alert superintendent of maintenance, and also Farr’s stepfather. Brice said that Farr’s style on the basketball court over the years put a great deal of impact on his knees and other joints. “He has an amazing cardiovascular reserve that has translated well into biking, where he now doesn’t do all the cutting and slashing, both up and down the court,� Brice said of Farr. Brice has been the father figure in Farr’s life since the age of 11, and he made the phone call when Farr wanted to talk to the Air Guard recruiter eight years ago. “One of the reasons I joined was definitely because of him (Brice),� Farr said. But Farr struggles with a dilemma; balancing his two passions — cycling and his job with the Oregon ANG. Biking takes time away from his career and continuing education goals, yet the demands of his job makes training problematic because of time and energy constraints. “He feels a real responsibility to his fellow Airmen, especially since he is the shop supervisor with the demands of the mission,� Brice said. “Yet knowing how much the coaching staff and military organization want to support him, he struggled for a while to find the time to commit more to the sport.� To create a win-win situation, Farr was able to compromise with a work schedule that allows him to thrive at both endeavors. He sat down with his supervisor, Lt. Col.

PORTLAND AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ore. — With endurance cycling, nearly every part of the sport is tough; from the demands of distance and the quality of the competitors, to the changing natural elements on any given day. For Tech. Sgt. Dwayne Farr, those difficulties pale in comparison with splitting his time between the grind of bicycle training to his no-fail mission with the Oregon Air National Guard. Over the past eight years, Farr has been assigned to the 142nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Portland Air National Guard Base, where he is currently the NCO in charge of aircrew egress. It has only been in the past four years that curiosity has transformed him into an elite international cyclist. “It started off really simple,� Farr said. “I wanted to see if I could commute from home by bike and use the time going back and forth to get in some exercise.� Yet six months after jumping on his bike, Farr was involved in racing events on weekends around the Pacific Northwest. The endeavor served to refuel his desire to participate in sports at the competitive level. At slightly less than 6 feet tall, slender and with a constant and contagious grin, Farr’s unassuming and easy-going personality obscures his deeply competitive nature. At Ridgefield High School in Vancouver, Wash., he was a standout point guard for the school’s basketball team, which made CYCLING, continued on Page 7 several appearances in the state finals. 'PS BEWFSUJTJOH JOGPSNBUJPO DBMM t BEWFSUJTJOH!NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN

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The real harm fake vets cause By Dan Rosenthal U.S. Army veteran

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t’s extremely common for fraudulent “vets� to tell stories of their fictional service that, due to the extra weight of authority and perceived experience of the storyteller’s military experience, are taken as the gospel truth. These stories then become part of a fictional public perception of what the military is, how it works, how soldiers operate, how they feel, how they act, what they experience etc. In the U.S. we have an overwhelming civilian-military divide, a knowledge and experience gap in which the vast majority of Americans simply don’t know much of anything about the military other than snippets they get from the news, TV, Hollywood, and games. Hisham Qandil, prime minister in Egypt’s There are several reasons for this, but Islamist Muslim Brotherhood governthey don’t really matter as much as the ment. She told him: “We know the attack existence of the gap itself. in Libya had nothing to do with the film. And herein lies the real, insidious It was a planned attack — not a protest. harm of “Stolen Valor.� The “war stories� Based on the information we saw today, that these fake vets tell serve to widen we believe that the group that claimed this gap. They further the creation of a responsibility for this was affiliated with false perception of what military life is al-Qaeda.� like, and what the challenges are that Hillary reverted to public lies that real soldiers face. For every person who Sept. 14, during the ceremony at Anpretends to be a hard-charging Ranger drews Air Force Base in which she and having killed a dozen Taliban with a Obama welcomed home the flag-draped knife and a pistol while alone behind caskets of U.S. ambassador J. Chrisenemy lines, there are three more who topher Stevens, technical officer Sean will hear this and believe it. Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen So what happens when the message Doherty and Tyrone Woods. they’re trying to send is that being an “We’ve seen rage and violence directed infantryman and having to shoot someat American embassies over an awful Inone or watch your friends die is “no big ternet video that we had nothing to do deal� and that those who suffer from with,� Hillary said. PTSD are “a bunch of pussies?� You get Hillary took things a totalitarian step a population that is unaware of the fact further when — according to Tyrone that 22 military veterans commit suiWoods’s father, Charles — Hillary told cide every day. him, “We will make sure that the perYou end up with a public that has son who made that film is arrested and no clue of the enormous divorce rates prosecuted.� in the special operations community “You had a video released by somebody due to the incredibly stressful operawho lives here, sort of a shadowy chartions tempo, or has no idea of the waracter, who has an extremely offensive rior mindset that enables someone to video directed at Mohammad and Islam,� ruck 50 miles through a swamp with Obama told TV host David Letterman on leeches all over their body, simply to obSept. 18. Obama added that “extremists serve a target for a few hours, report in, and terrorists used this as an excuse to atand ruck 50 miles back out through a tack a variety of embassies, including the swamp without leaving a trace. consulate in Libya.� And ultimately, this disconnect beFully 14 days after learning that the tween civilian and military grows wider, Benghazi attack was a coordinated, aland deeper as more cases of “Stolen ValQaeda-linked Islamic-terrorist broadside or� arise. And as the gap grows, there against American territory and personbecome fewer and fewer civilians capanel, Obama stood before the United Nable of realizing when a story is fake, and tions General Assembly and lied, lied, lied: when it’s true. “There is no video that justifies an attack That is the greatest harm that Stolen Valor can cause, more so than a free dinLIES, continued on Page 15 ner at Applebees once a year. XXX NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN t FEJUPSTEFTL!NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN

HILLARY AND OBAMA’S LIES ON BENGHAZI Far too many to count, but let’s try By Deroy Murdoch National Review

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eople died. Hillary lied. Obama lied, too. They lied early. They lied often. They lied deliberately. They lied about the slaughter of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, at the hands of al-Qaeda-tied terrorists. They lied, but not to protect vital national secrets or flummox America’s enemies. They lied to get reelected. And they lied directly, knowingly, and repeatedly to the American people. I long had cut them some slack regarding their first comments about the Benghazi attack. Thanks to the fog of war, I thought, they could not be blamed if they initially misattributed this deadly onslaught to a mob inflamed about an incredibly amateur Internet video that dissed the Prophet Mohammad. If they innocently got it wrong in, say, the first 12 hours after the assault began, they might deserve a grudging pass — at least for those early announcements. Alas, I was unjustifiably generous toward Hillary and Obama. Instead, I should have been profoundly cynical. As FactCheck.org chronicled, and L. Gordon Crovitz detailed in the Wall Street Journal, Clinton issued a statement on the attack at 10:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Sept. 11, 2012. It read, in part: “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. 6 +BO

The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.� But that was a lie. At 11:12 p.m., just 40 minutes later, Hillary e-mailed her daughter, Chelsea, with the truth: “Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an al Qaeda-like group.� Hillary’s e-mail was addressed to “Diane Reynolds,� Chelsea’s code name. This smoking e-mail surfaced during Hillary’s Oct. 22, 2015 hearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. At 11:49 p.m., Hillary contacted Libyan president Mohamed Magariaf, also with the truth: “There is a gun battle ongoing, which I understand Ansar [al] Sharia is claiming responsibility for.� This group is al-Qaeda’s Libyan franchisee. The next day, Sept. 12, 2012, Hillary resumed her public lies: “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at our embassy in Cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet,� she said in a speech at the State Department. “America’s commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear — there is no justification for this, none.� Echoing Hillary’s lie du jour, Obama chimed in with his own lie that day: “Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths,� he declared in the Rose Garden. “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None.� Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, lied even more explicitly that day: “We have no information to suggest that it was a planned attack.� Hillary toggled back to private-truth mode at 3:04 p.m., when she phoned

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Congressman calls Navy secretary a greater threat to Marines than ISIS U.S. Rep., Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) has declared that Ray Mabus, the Secretary of the Navy, is “a greater threat to the Marine Corps than ISIS� because of his efforts to open combat roles to women in spite of a study conducted by the Marines that indicated that warfighting effectiveness would suffer as a result. “The reason the military is there is not to be a transgender, corporate organization,� Hunter told POLITICO, referring to the Pentagon’s plans to allow transgender service members to serve openly. “The military is there to execute American policy overseas, protect our allies and kill our enemies. It’s not a corporation. We’re not all treated equal.� Hunter is most tweaked about Mabus’ memo to the Corps directing them to gender-integrate boot camp and to lose the word “man� from military job titles. “These are long lasting,� Hunter said. “These changes that they’re making are

not thought out, they’re not researched, CYCLING they’ve not been debated. The American Continued from Page 5 public has no idea what’s going on ‌ It’s going to get people killed.â€? Todd Hofford, the 142nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron commander, and created schedule that permits him to work four Court: Wearing unearned a10-hour days each week, allowing one full medals is free speech day to train with his local team. “It’s pretty incredible to realize what a A federal appeals court has tossed out a professional athlete we have working here veteran’s conviction for wearing military every day,â€? Hofford said. “Not only has he put Oregon on the map, but he’s integratmedals he didn’t earn. A specially convened 11-judge panel of ed a team of officers and senior enlisted. the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled He is the fastest contributor (of the team) Jan. 10 that wearing unearned military and also the junior-ranking member.â€? Hofford emphasized that the positives honors is free speech protected by the outweigh the negatives in Farr’s circumFirst Amendment of the Constitution. Elven Joe Swisher of Idaho was con- stances and stressed that he inspires covicted of violating the Stolen Valor Act. workers and leadership throughout the Investigators looked into his military maintenance group. “When you talk to him about his story claims after he testified at the 2005 trial of a man charged with soliciting the murder — from just jumping on a bike one day for of a federal judge. Swisher wore a Purple recreation to where he is today — it’s incredible,â€? Hofford said. “His energy and positive Heart on the witness stand. Prosecutors say Swisher enlisted in the approach to everything is infectious.â€? Farr was one of more than 8,500 athMarine Corps a year after the Korean War ended but was never wounded in the line letes from 123 nations that participated in the 2015 Military World Games in of duty. Mungyeoung, South Korea, in October. Of the seven U.S. military competitors who made up the cycling team, Farr was the only enlisted member of the squad. On a mostly flat course, the 95-mile bike race on Oct. 6 included competitors from 16 nations. “My job was to cover the early moves and breakaways of the other riders,â€? Farr said of the event and his team’s strategy for the race.

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already working on a screenplay before the book was even done. Paronto: It was almost a one-stop shop with 3Arts (Entertainment), who already had Mitch and Chuck Hogan, who is a screenwriter. They also had Erwin Stoff, who produced “Unbroken,� he executive produced “The Matrix� and “The Blind Side,� so they already had everything lined up. All we did was say “yes.� Tiegen: Once the pitch was done, Paramount was the only one with cojones to stand by us, saying this is a great story. When the idea of the book came up, what was your initial reaction? Paronto: We were all working and Mark was injured severely. We continued to deploy for almost eight months. There wasn’t any idea to do a book when we came back. That wasn’t our intention at all. But when the story of what took place on the ground continued to be misconstrued and then utilized by politicians for agendas, it kept pushing us. We’d hear things that were incorrect or people writing books about that night, and they weren’t even there. It just got to the point where our integrity was being tested. Also, the fact that people were not being honored that died that night, we just came together as a team and decided as a team

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to do the story and the book. We chose that medium because we figured it was a good way to keep it from being political. You try to go to a news organization and it’s either right or left, so that was that. How was getting this put down into words for each of you? Geist: We were forced to by Mitchell Zuckoff (all three men break out laughing). I would do is go drive the dirt roads to a pasture and tape it. Using a digital recorder, I would drive around and talk. Paronto: He gave us a questionnaire, and we would talk into the recorder

and send them back to Mitch. It was all separate. We never did it together until we had the first draft down. He wanted to get us all separately to tell our story. When he found that separately we were saying the same thing, he knew that we were on the level. I think that reinforced for him that he wanted to do a good job and honor us, because I think he realized that we were going through hell with the misrepresentations. Was there a time you couldn’t speak about what happened in Benghazi? Tiegen: Yes, and it’s because of who we

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He would say it flows with the story better, and either, it came from several. Michael was I’d say I don’t give a shit — this guy did this saying there were a couple of issues about the location of other act and he needs to be For a chance to win a signed movie assets that could seen doing this act! possibly have been When you learned poster and to read Jeri Jacquin’s review available. It’s more of that Michael Bay was of “13 Hours,â€? go to militarypress.com. an illustration of it, going to be a part of because they throw down a map and circle this project, what was your reaction? Geist: There were always reservations different places where assets could be and about giving up your life rights, because it where they were drawn too. Michael got that information from means you have no control. So it was one of the things we had to be concerned with. other sources. It doesn’t say they were sent We told him from the get-go that this was or that someone told them to stand-down. our issue. Because you can take this and do In the movie, it’s depicted as this is what whatever with it and if you do that then ‌ could be there. Paronto: It was correct as well. The Paronto: ‌ we will not promote it. Department of Defense had assets getting (The men break out laughing again) The final product in the casting — are spun up to come. It doesn’t get to the flights and how they were diverted because that’s you pleased? Geist: Absolutely. They put together a speculative and if it’s speculative, then we really great cast. I mean to me, because in didn’t want it in the book, and we didn’t the end when we watch the movie I can see want it in the movie and adding that stuff Tanto’s and Tig’s mannerisms. All of them delegitimizes the story. That’s why I didn’t have you read all those brought to it a level of professionalism, and I can’t judge having not been at this little notes I have stuck to the book. I had so level before — but you couldn’t have many questions, but by the end of the book I asked for better or more. The same with realized those questions didn’t matter. Paronto: It’s good that it raises questions Michael Bay, he just approached this from because it is supposed to raise questions too. a different level. What finally, are you doing now? Tiegen: It’s like he wanted the movie to Tiegen: This is what we are doing, be about what really happened. It’s about what happened — not losing it with an pushing the story to get it out there as A-list actor being more important than much as we can. We want everyone to the story. There were those actors that know what happened. We had the loss of were interested, is what we had been told, an ambassador of over 30 years. That’s and people who thought that’s how it another reason we wanted to make sure it was written down correctly. The book is a should be. Geist: Bay said no, it has to be about the history book. 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the U.S. Navy sent five destroyers of its own up the Yangtze River to relieve the foreign citizens and evacuate them. Every time the ships steamed into the city, they came under attack. The American and British sailors returned fire with overwhelming force, silencing the Chinese guns each time. Only one British and one American sailor were killed.

1967 – Benghazi, Libya

Two years before Muammar Gaddafi’s coup toppled the regime of the Elderly King Idris I, the people of Libya were still fiercely proud of their Arab nationalism. At the onset of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian propaganda convinced the locals of Benghazi that U.S. Navy planes were assisting Israel in their preemptive strikes against Egyptian airfields and other military targets.

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1979 – Tehran, Iran

When the Shah of Iran abdicated the throne in 1979, he jetted around the world from place to place, searching for a country who would grant him asylum. Unbeknownst to much of the world, the Shah was also suffering from terminal cancer. In an act of compassion, U.S. President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah to enter the U.S. for treatment. The people of Iran saw this act as complicity with a brutal regime and worried the U.S. was setting the stage to reinstall the Shah’s dictatorial regime once more, as they had done in 1953. The Tehran Embassy had been taken over on Feb. 4 and held for three hours before the Foreign Ministry of the new government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini convinced the attackers to give it back within three hours. On Nov. 4, students at the University

of Tehran planned and stormed the embassy again and would hold hostages for 444 days. The Iranian government used the hostages to secure passage of its Constitution and other Khomeini-era reforms, and hold parliamentary elections. A U.S. military attempt to rescue the hostages the next year failed miserably in the deserts of Iran. After the 1979 embassy takeover, U.S. diplomatic posts worldwide were subjected to mortars, RPGs and vehicleborne improvised explosives, but a U.S. ambassador hadn’t been killed in the course of duty since armed Islamic extremists in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed Ambassador Adolph Dubs in 1979. That all changed in September 2012, when an armed militia stormed a diplomatic compound in Benghazi and killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. +BO 13

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is man standing at the door. It didn’t take the homeowner long to realize the man is drunk. “Hi there,� slurs the stranger, “Can you give me a push??� “No, get lost, it’s half past three. I was in bed,� says the man and slams the door. He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened and she says, “Dave, that wasn’t very nice of you. Remember that night we broke down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the babysitter and you had to knock on that man’s house to get us started again? What would have happened if he’d told us to get lost??� “But the guy was drunk,� says the husband. “It doesn’t matter,� says the wife. “He needs our help and it would be the Christian thing to help him.� So the husband gets out of bed again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs. He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere he shouts: “Hey, do you still want a push??� and he hears a voice cry out “Yeah please.� So, still being unable to see the stranger he shouts: “Where are you?� And the stranger replies: “I’m over here, on your swing.�

Aren’t you forgetting something?

A man went into a bar and ordered several shots of vodka. By the time the bar was closing, he was wasted. He got up to leave and fell flat on his face. “Well, I don’t want the bartender to think I’m drunk, so I’ll pretend I tripped and I’ll try it again.� So he gets up and falls on his face. “Well, the door’s not too far away; I’ll just crawl.� When he gets outside he thinks, “Well, I only live four blocks away; I can make it that far.� So he stands up and falls on his face. He decides he’ll try it one block at a time, and at every block he falls flat on his face. Finally he makes it home, stands up and falls on the bed. In the morning his wife wakes him up. “You were drunk again last night, weren’t you?� “How did you know?�

“The bartender called. He said you left Bud says, “Man, I wish we had someyour wheelchair at the bar.� thing to drink!� Jim says, “Me too. Y’know, I’ve heard you can drink jet fuel and get a buzz. You wanna try it?� So they pour Failed to notice After a quarrel, a husband said to his themselves a couple of glasses of high-ocwife, “You know, I was a fool when I mar- tane hooch and get completely smashed. The next morning Bud wakes up and is ried you.� She replied, “Yes, dear, but I was in love surprised at how good he feels. In fact he feels GREAT! NO hangover! NO bad side and didn’t notice.� effects. Nothing! Then the phone rings... It’s Jim. High-octane hooch Jim says, “Hey, how do you feel this Bud and Jim were a couple of drinking buddies who worked as airplane mechanics morning?� Bud says, “I feel great. How in Atlanta. One day the airport was fogged about you?� Jim says, “I feel great, too. You don’t have a hangover?� Bud says, “No, in and they were stuck with nothing to do. that jet fuel is great stuff — no hangover, nothing. We ought to do this more often.� “Yeah, well there’s just one thing...� “What’s that?� “Have you farted yet?� “No.....� “Well, don’t, ’cause I’m in PHOENIX!!!�

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on an embassy,� Obama said that Sept. 25. “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.� Just two days into that future, Los Angeles County sheriff ’s deputies fulfilled Hillary’s chilling prophecy to Charles Woods. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the Egyptian Coptic Christian who created the notorious Internet video, “Innocence of Muslims,� was arrested, supposedly because he used a pseudonym and thereby violated parole on an unrelated bankfraud conviction. He subsequently was sentenced to a year in the La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas. Never mind that the First Amendment should have shielded his right to produce whatever video he wanted on Mohammad or any other religious figure. (Rather than molder behind bars, the producers of Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon� still laugh all the way to the bank, as hard as their audiences howl nightly.) Nakoula was a convenient patsy. As such, Hillary appears to have transformed him from a poor-quality filmmaker into a political prisoner. Hillary and Obama buried the truth beneath an Oriental rug of lies. It covered up painful facts, lest they contradict the comforting campaign theme that Obama unveiled at the Democrat National Convention just five days before Benghazi: “alQaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama

bin Laden is dead.� And it worked! The truth about Benghazi, what Hillary and Obama knew, and when they knew it, remained obscured until the House committee began investigating. This helped Obama win the White House in November 2012, and put Hillary in a comfortable position from which to run as his successor. Regardless, with this much of the truth now out in the open, nothing that either of these two liars utters can be taken at face value ever again. They already were unbelievable, thanks to the Liar-in-Chief ’s “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan� serial deceptions on Obamacare and other multifarious matters. Ditto Hillary’s decades of mendacity, from cattle futures to “there is no classified material� on the clandestine e-mail server that she willfully hid from scrutiny for seven years. Whatever embers of credibility either of these reprobates may have possessed were extinguished with the ice water of Hillary’s testimony before the committee. Obama’s and Hillary’s lies about the Benghazi massacre confirm, once and for all, that they are twin moral vacuums. They deserve all of the scorn, disrespect, and rejection that such a disgraceful distinction demands. Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.

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