:30:01
The FBI. investigation shows...
:30:02
that all the bullet holes
in the embassy wall...
:30:05
came from directly across
the way, from the snipers.
:30:08
Any weapons or ammo found
among the dead or wounded?
:30:11
No, sir. Nothing.
However, intelligence suggests...
:30:14
this could have been
a terrorist operation.
:30:17
Any proof?
:30:18
This is a tape from
the embassy security system.
:30:22
- Want me to thread it up?
- No. I don't want to watch videos.
:30:24
I don't want to hear about
ammo casings in some building,
:30:27
'cause here I got
83 dead people...
:30:30
unarmed...
women, children, old men.
:30:33
Another hundred or so
critically wounded.
:30:35
Here I got an international
crisis of mega fucking proportions!
:30:39
Bill, you know there have been
regular reports...
:30:41
of a terrorist
plot against this embassy.
:30:43
This was a regularly scheduled
protest. It was every week.
:30:46
It was the usual bullshit about
American presence in the gulf.
:30:50
Have you looked at these?
I mean, I'm just assuming you have,
:30:54
since they're on the front page
of every newspaper in the world.
:30:57
It's not that the rest of the
world wants to hold us responsible,
:31:00
we are responsible!
:31:04
We can't even have
the appearance of a cover-up.
:31:07
That does not excuse us
from our duty, Mr. Sokal.
:31:10
We sent Colonel Childers in there,
and the mission went to shit.
:31:14
We can't go after the man
who carried out his orders...
:31:17
and ignore the people
who issued those orders.
:31:19
Childers ordered the slaughter...
:31:21
of innocent women and children.
Get that straight right now.
:31:23
I'll tell you
what we ought to get straight.
:31:25
We lost three
United States Marines.
:31:27
They lost 83!
:31:29
Now, are we gonna go to war
with Yemen over it?
:31:32
We're covering our ass all over
the Middle East right now, General.
:31:36
Because of your man's
hot headed miscalculation,
:31:38
we are in danger of losing embassies
in Saudi, Jordan and Egypt.
:31:43
We're in danger
of losing our presence...
:31:45
with every moderate
in the region.
:31:48
Now they're gonna scream
"cover up".
:31:50
The screaming will get so loud we'll
be sending Marines back over there,
:31:53
and the body count of American
dead is gonna be higher than three.
:31:58
I see where you're going
with this, Mr. Sokal.