What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why.

I was never surprised. I know that Benghazi has a bad reputation.

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.

Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?

Bad faith political warfare. The regime keeps lying about it. They're not going to let this go,

are they? And frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two

together. I'm Leon Nefok, co-creator of Slow Burn.

You've heard me dig in to political firestorms like Iran-Contra and Bush Fikor.

Now it's time for a slightly more recent scandal, one that began with the killing of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya.

Benghazi has been contested ever since.

Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?

The forces that led up to the scandal and the marks that left on America and Libya

are still coming into focus.

Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.

Over six episodes, you'll hear what life was like in Benghazi before the attack under the regime of Muammar Gaddafi

and during the revolution that brought him down.

We could see the smoke of Geref's convoy.

It was obvious that death is coming.

You'll meet the late Chris Stevens, a U.S. ambassador who set out to redefine America's

relationship with the Arab world.

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