# Guess what 60 Minutes decided to do last night? (Answer: Benghazi) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 28, 2013, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429 "2013-10-28T09:40:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/1 "2013-10-28T09:40:44Z")
[http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157981n](http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157981n) I can’t imagine this will go over well with some here. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/2 "2013-10-28T10:03:17Z")
And from 60 Minutes extra: > [@](#): > > What kind of obstacles did you encounter along the way? > > Lara: An extraordinary amount of pressure on the people involved not to talk. And an extraordinary amount of pressure on anyone in the government–the military side, the political side–not to say anything outside of official channels. I mean, to the point where people that we’ve known for years would call people who were no longer in their positions, and they would call someone else that we knew, and messages would be delivered like that because there couldn’t be any trail linking you directly to our story. > > The administration is cracking down so hard on leakers: no one wants to put anything in writing, everybody is scared to talk over the phone, people want to meet in person–all of that makes it that much harder to investigate anything. [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803\_162-57609505-10391709/q-a-the-60-minutes-benghazi-investigation/](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57609505-10391709/q-a-the-60-minutes-benghazi-investigation/) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/3 "2013-10-28T10:03:55Z")
Don’t make us watch a video, just say what it is about and explain your beef with it. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/4 "2013-10-28T10:07:09Z")
60 minutes did an investigation of Benghazi which they broadcast last night. They revealed that a) the administration lied about the cause of the attack, because they knew right away it was a planned, coordinated attack, not spontaneous, and b) that lives were saved only because heroic individuals disobeyed orders or acted without orders. Actually, it wouldn’t be fair to call these revelations, since they have been known for over a year, but a lot of people might not have known what Benghazi was all about, since most of the reporting before 60 Minutes was about the partisan finger-pointing rather than the facts. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/5 "2013-10-28T10:14:44Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Don’t make us watch a video, just say what it is about and explain your beef with it. My guess is the OP doesn’t know what he thinks yet. At this point all he’s done is watch the show. Now he needs to have some conservative commentators “explain” what really happened. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/6 "2013-10-28T11:18:11Z")
[http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=60minutes&catid=57609479&feed\_id=32](http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=60minutes&catid=57609479&feed_id=32) Here is the script. I don’t see anything consistent with your assertions in the script. Can you please quote what you’re referring to? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/7 "2013-10-28T11:23:40Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > 60 minutes did an investigation of Benghazi which they broadcast last night. They revealed that a) the administration lied about the cause of the attack, because they knew right away it was a planned, coordinated attack, not spontaneous, and b) that lives were saved only because heroic individuals disobeyed orders or acted without orders. > > Actually, it wouldn’t be fair to call these revelations, since they have been known for over a year, but a lot of people might not have known what Benghazi was all about, since most of the reporting before 60 Minutes was about the partisan finger-pointing rather than the facts. Please quote the portions that support your assertions a) and b). ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/8 "2013-10-28T11:25:32Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > And from 60 Minutes extra: > > [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803\_162-57609505-10391709/q-a-the-60-minutes-benghazi-investigation/](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57609505-10391709/q-a-the-60-minutes-benghazi-investigation/) You mean the government doesn’t want information put out from anyone except for official, approved channels? They’re making it hard for leakers to leak sensitive information? Shocking! Next you’re going to tell us that sometimes politicians stretch the truth for political gain! ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/9 "2013-10-28T11:27:52Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > You mean the government doesn’t want information put out from anyone except for official, approved channels? They’re making it hard for leakers to leak sensitive information? Shocking! Next you’re going to tell us that sometimes politicians stretch the truth for political gain! Just wait till he finds out that they have been spying as well! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/10 "2013-10-28T11:53:26Z")
**Guess what 60 Minutes decided to do last night?** I give up. What? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/11 "2013-10-28T12:30:00Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > **Guess what 60 Minutes decided to do last night?** > > I give up. What? Whatever it was, it took adaher an hour and a half to watch it. Can’t believe there are still people who are criticizing Obama for not sprinting to a microphone and shouting “terrorism!” as soon as he heard about it, as if that would help and if not doing so were treasonous. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/12 "2013-10-28T12:37:55Z")
Intelligence community knows it’s a coordinated terrorist attack, and then so therefore Obama knows. Obama publicly hedges, so that way, those in the intelligence community are slightly safer while they are inside the rat’s den. Obama clearly being treasonous for not revealing every piece of information we knew as soon as we knew it. Definitely worst president ever. If only he were like Bush and revealed classified pieces of intelligence that we never actually had to begin with because it was actually un-intelligence, not intelligence. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/13 "2013-10-28T12:56:51Z")
The biggest problem here is that it that this is 60 Minutes. It may be the truth but it’s hard to tell since 60 Minutes has never let the truth stand in the way of a good story. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/14 "2013-10-28T13:20:48Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > [60 Minutes - Episodes, interviews, profiles, reports and 60 Minutes Overtime - CBS News](http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=60minutes&catid=57609479&feed_id=32) > > Here is the script. I don’t see anything consistent with your assertions in the script. Can you please quote what you’re referring to? Is that the entire script, because it doesn’t seem complete at all? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/15 "2013-10-28T13:21:23Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > **Guess what 60 Minutes decided to do last night?** > > I give up. What? I was going to guess digital stopwatch. I would have been wrong it seems. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/16 "2013-10-28T13:25:44Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > [60 Minutes - Episodes, interviews, profiles, reports and 60 Minutes Overtime - CBS News](http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=60minutes&catid=57609479&feed_id=32) > > Here is the script. I don’t see anything consistent with your assertions in the script. Can you please quote what you’re referring to? It’s fairly obvious that that is not the entire script, although I’m mystified as to why they would only put up part of it without a statement that it is a partial transcript. With that said, I too call on the OP to give us some kind of verifiable support for his claims, especially item b). ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/17 "2013-10-28T13:47:42Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > It’s fairly obvious that that is not the entire script, although I’m mystified as to why they would only put up part of it without a statement that it is a partial transcript. > > With that said, I too call on the OP to give us some kind of verifiable support for his claims, especially item b). It appears that the mobile version has an incomplete script. Try going to the non-mobile version of the story. (Whether you can do this by just deleting the m. From my link I’m not sure, but a Google search will get you to the desktop version.) ETA: Looking at the desktop full version gives a hint as to what adaher might be referring to, but also reveals significant problems with his interpretations. I’d like to make sure what he’s talking about before going further. Plus I should be working on a presentation. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/18 "2013-10-28T13:51:29Z")
[The script.](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57609479/60-minutes-benghazi/) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/19 "2013-10-28T14:01:39Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > **Guess what 60 Minutes decided to do last night?** Try to summon Cthulhu for an interview? Tore off Dick Cheney’s mask on camera to show that he’s really a lizard alien? Produced evidence that Obama isn’t really an American citizen, but is actually a lab rat driving an Obama-bot? Which would make Biden Pinky in a Biden-bot, probably… Produced evidence that Huitzilopochtli is the One True God, and sacrificed a member of the staff on-air? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429/20 "2013-10-28T14:04:55Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > [The script.](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57609479/60-minutes-benghazi/) I don’t see anything in there about what the administration knew. It doesn’t even come up - the whole thing is just about how the people stationed there knew security was insufficient. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-60-minutes-decided-to-do-last-night-answer-benghazi/672429.md?page=2)