Your Letters: March 8, 2021 Reader Submissions Gabriel Portillo and Benghazi Conservatives love repeating lies long after they have been exposed as lies (Disneyland was never segregated, Donald Trump did not win the election). Their favorites seem to be the ones told about the attack on Benghazi, as Gabriel Portillo demonstrates. On Sept. 11, 2012, and for several days after, dozens of American diplomatic facilities were attacked by large groups of Muslims enraged by an American anti-Muslim video called “Innocence of Muslims.” The CIA concluded that was one of the reasons for the attack on Benghazi, and that’s what they said in their report to the White House.