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Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Benghazi: Episode 4 - Feckless

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Pushkin Industries

News Commentary, Government, News

4.4848 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

How the attack in Benghazi collided with an American election, and how the seeds of a scandal were planted.

For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics


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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:10.4

Pushkin.

0:16.0

Previously on Fiasco.

0:24.5

It was a high-risk venture.

0:28.0

I was very worried about a security.

0:29.7

Six months after the uprising, Libya is flooded with weapons and faces a potential power vacuum.

0:35.1

The people who you're dealing with are not your friends.

0:38.8

The scene is quiet.

0:44.8

A relatively small but already armed group shows up at the gates.

0:47.8

Find out what exactly is going on.

0:53.6

What they had when they walked out was all the information they needed to conduct a precision mortar attack at night.

0:55.9

And so the next ones are right on target.

1:05.4

The 11th anniversary of September 11th was kind of like a 31st birthday.

1:10.8

One year after a major milestone, it just didn't land with as much fanfare.

1:15.8

It's expected to be a quiet day as both candidates commemorate the 9-11 attacks, both President Obama.

1:16.6

Still, it was a somber enough occasion that both candidates in the 2012 presidential race,

1:22.2

the incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, agreed to suspend

1:27.0

all negative campaigning for the day.

1:29.3

Yeah, you will hear no negative campaigning.

1:31.6

Not today.

1:32.4

For one day, we won't have that.

1:34.0

Around the 9-11 attacks, you know, we would see it not as an opportunity necessarily for politics.

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