Complete months · first on record Sep 2023 · recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed
Not enough disagreement in the transcripts to form camps. These are the positions taken by people with demonstrated expertise on this topic first, then by how many people heard them on it, then by VoiceRank.
The stand-down order issued to the security team in Benghazi was a direct cause of the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith.
“That standown order is the 100% guarantees why Ambassador Steven and Sean Smith didn't make it.”
Shawn Ryan Show · Sep 2025 · 1 episode · 2.1M views on this topicThe Benghazi attack was a coordinated operation directed by Ayman al-Zawahiri to kidnap Ambassador Stevens for prisoner swaps.
“So the attack was directed by the head of al-Qaeda, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. He basically handed off to his North Africa um group, right? So AQIM is what we'll go by. And the purpose of it was was to capture Ambassador Stevens.”
Shawn Ryan Show · Nov 2023 · 2 episodes · 2.3M views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.