LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: We're going to have to do more active fact checking, I think, on this convention than others. And the Patricia Smith's speech is gut-wrenching, but you listen to it carefully, it doesn't have any direct linkage to Hillary Clinton. There's an emotional linkage, and an emotional objection she has. She's followed on the stage by Mark Geist and John Tiegan, they were actually there in Benghazi as part of the security detail. They are the co-authors of the book 13 Hours which became the movie, 13 Hours. The linchpin of the drama in that movie is a stand down order, an order for them not to go in, not to do a rescue. That has been investigated by every committee. Every committee investigating this has found there was no stand down order. This is the Republican report written by Chairman Mike Rogers, the House Republican report saying, “Committee found no evidence there was either a stand down order or denial of available air support. The committee also found that there was no intelligence failure prior to the attacks.” The committee found nothing that they could lay at the feet of Hillary Clinton as liability for these attacks, and for the outcome of these attacks. This convention finds complete liability for Hillary Clinton, but not using any of the facts in here. Mark Geist and John Tiegan say in their remarks, which are basically an incredibly dramatic and powerful account of what they did, and that's all accurate, but then they just go -- they leap to this point there was a stand down order, even though they could not establish that in their testimony to the committee, and then they say Hillary Clinton failed to protect her people on the ground. That's just an assertion that comes after this long and very accurate description what they heroically did there. But there is -- If any committee could have found any evidence to support the sentence “Hillary Clinton failed to protect her people on the ground,” that committee would have highlighted that, we would have had that before a Republican convention.

Previously:

Review: Michael Bay's 13 Hours Is A Coded Message To Benghazi Conspiracy Theorists

NBC’s Richard Engel: RNC Manipulated Grief Of Benghazi Victim's Mother To Smear Clinton

The Benghazi Hoax Has Its Own Night At The GOP Convention