Accounts Differ to F.B.I. and CBS on Benghazi (NEW NYT Article on 60 Minutes Report)
Source: New York Times
Accounts Differ to F.B.I. and CBS on Benghazi
By BILL CARTER and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Published: November 7, 2013
Dylan Davies, a security officer hired to help protect the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, told the F.B.I. he did not go there the night terrorists attacked it on Sept. 11, 2012, an account that contradicts a version of events he gave in a recently published book and in an interview to the CBS News program 60 Minutes.
The information he provided in an F.B.I. interview was described Thursday by two senior government officials as completely consistent with an incident report by the Blue Mountain security business, which had been hired to protect United States interests in Benghazi. The officials who spoke said they had been briefed on the government investigation.
Mr. Davies, who worked for Blue Mountain, has disavowed the incident report, saying in an interview last week with the online magazine The Daily Beast that he did not write it and had never even seen it, and was not responsible for the account of events it contained.
The contradictions between the versions offered in the incident report and what was presented on television and in the book Mr. Davies appeared on the program and wrote the book under the pseudonym Morgan Jones have led to questions about how 60 Minutes came to present Mr. Davies as a credible source for its extensive report on the Benghazi incident.
The incident report described Mr. Davies as remaining at the villa he occupied in Libya and not getting to the scene on the night of the attack. In the version he wrote in his book and gave to 60 Minutes, Mr. Davies said he left the villa that night to visit a hospital, where he said he saw the body of the deceased ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, and twice rushed to the scene of the attack.
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Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Okay...probably not but damn, when will there be accountability for the media?
groundloop
(11,527 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)60 minutes completely shits the cred bed.
Archae
(46,358 posts)Heads are gonna roll...
CBS News Pulls Troubled Benghazi Report As New Reports Eat Away At Source's Credibility
CBS News pulled a crumbling 60 Minutes report on the 2012 Benghazi attacks from its website and YouTube channel amid new information from The New York Times that corroborates claims that CBS' star witness provided conflicting accounts about what he witnessed the night of the attack. Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman and 60 Minutes executive producer, hinted that a correction may be forthcoming.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/07/cbs-news-pulls-troubled-benghazi-report-as-new/196796
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)Pretty much in depth, for a thirty minute program. I was very satisfied with his coverage.
Hopefully 60 Minutes will do a follow-up.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Real journalism died with Edward R Murrow and Walter Cronkite. I think that today all they do is take talking points from either the highest bidder or whoever there cooperate overload say to go with!
madmom
(9,681 posts)lark
(23,166 posts)Faux would be yelling to the rooftops, it'd be top story on CNN, NBC, CBS & ABC if it was a negative story about a Dem. It just absolutely disgusts me the double std. that exists in the so-called news media. No wonder Americans are so ignorant, that's all they hear and see. It takes work to discover the truth and we are a spoon fed kind of nation, which seems to be leading to our complete downfall.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)and stated that 60 minutes will include a statement on the sunday program.
lark
(23,166 posts)Thanks.
marshall
(6,665 posts)But it sounds like they are just going to mention it, and leave it to sound like the controversy over whether Jesse Jackson was the last person to speak to Martin Luther King and cradled him in his arms as he died. I want to know how this man's lies impacted more than just his portrayal of himself as integral to an important event.