Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state during the September 11, 2012 attack on the American diplomatic facilities and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, is never mentioned in the new movie on the attack, "13 Hours," according to
The New York Times.
The Democrat presidential front-runner
has taken heat – especially under congressional testimony – for her failure to respond to requests for more security from Ambassador Chris Stevens, who died along with three other Americans during the attack.
Though failures in the official response to the attack are portrayed in the Michael Bay-directed film, set to open January 15, Clinton's name is never mentioned. President Barack Obama makes only a briefly mentioned.
"The film's operatives openly question inadequate security measures at the diplomatic compound in advance of the attack," the Times writes. "C.I.A. staffers deride and disregard the operatives, and play down the dangers in Libya. Requested air support never arrives."
Bay agreed with the operatives whose story is told in the film that partisan politics should not be a part of the movie.
Still, the Times noted, " In what might be one political sore spot, a printed crawl at the picture's end points out that in the years after the attack, Libya became a stronghold for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL."
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