This week's release of Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi will likely reignite the right-wing misinformation campaign about the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya. Conservative media, led by Fox News, have spent over three years trying to find evidence of a Benghazi “bombshell” - something scandalous about the way the Obama administration and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to the attack.
Conservatives have falsely accused the administration of lying about the cause of the attack, issuing a "stand down" order, failing to send aid to the facility, and dismissing the deaths of the victims. But every “bombshell” has turned out to be a dud. 13 Hours may give Fox News the highly dramatized Benghazi story it's been hoping for, but years of actual investigations have thoroughly deflated the right-wing Benghazi fantasy: