The Fousesquawk Brief

Darby Shaw-voluptuous law school student


Inspired by the events in Benghazi, I am in the process of writing a screen play, loosely based on the preposterous movie, "The Pelican Brief". I am still fleshing it out, but here is the basic plot.

Darby Shaw, played by the voluptuous Julia Roberts, is a young law school student. One morning, she wakes up with her live-in boyfriend to the news of the attack in Benghazi. She decides to spend the day at the library surfing the Internet for answers. That evening, she gets back home and tells her boyfriend what she has learned.

It is a tale of international high intrigue with her own government using Benghazi as a central point for gathering weapons left over from the Ghaddafi regime in Libya and funneling them to fighters trying to overthrow the Syrian regime. The trouble is that the groups receiving the weapons are tied to elements of Al Qaeda. She also learns that in the months leading up to the attack, Washington had ignored pleas for enhanced security from those on the ground in Benghazi. Worse yet, pleas for help during the attack were ignored, and the military was ordered not to intervene. Add that to mysterious deliveries to a mysterious ship in the dead of night at a Turkish port along with efforts of the Russian secret service to stop the deliveries to their Syrian ally, and we have the makings of a real spy thriller. And only Darby Shaw can uncover the truth.

Darby and her boyfriend try to get the Justice Department under Eric Holder to examine her findings. They don't seem interested. Neither does the press. It appears nobody wants to embarrass the President, who is running for re-election and has promised to "track down the killers of the American ambassador and bring them to justice".

Almost immediately, however, Darby's lover is killed in a car bomb attack meant for her. Darby finds herself being followed by strange white guys in black suits and sunglasses driving black SUVs with the windows blacked out.

Eventually, she gains the interest of a sympathetic blogger, who believes her story and wants to get to the bottom of the Benghazi mess. What follows is a spellbinding saga of lies, betrayal, and danger as our heroes race to get the truth out as the presidential elections approach.

Well, that's as far as I have gotten. We don't have a conclusion yet. Outside of that, the other thing I have to do is find which role to fit Denzel Washington into.

Any ideas?