Report: CBS' Benghazi Source Has "Disappeared" After Receiving "Threat"

[alp227]

Dylan Davies, the British security contractor at the heart of a CBS segment about the Benghazi attacks that was pulled following questions about his credibility, has "disappeared" after sending an email to his publisher detailing an alleged "threat," according to Daily Beast reporter Eli Lake, who obtained the email.

Lake previously received exclusive access to Davies, who apparently lied to the reporter in an attempt to control the damage to his credibility as his story unraveled.

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In his November 14 article, headlined "Exclusive: Why Dylan Davies Disappeared," Lake writes that on November 8 -- the morning after CBS had pulled their report -- an executive at the publisher received an email from Davies. That email stated that Davies had received a threat to his family five days before -- the day after his interview with Lake was published -- and that while he stands by his story, due to the threat, he "will not discuss the book with anyone under any circumstances for the foreseeable future." Hours after Simon & Schuster reportedly received the email, they announced that they had withdrawn Davies' book from publication and recommended that bookstores take it off their shelves.

Lake writes that he confirmed with the South Wales police that an investigation into the alleged threat is underway. He also details how the facts of Davies' original account have been "called into question."

full: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/14/report-cbs-benghazi-source-has-disappeared-afte/196904

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/14/why-dylan-davies-disappeared.html

[gopiscrap]

1. imagine that

[Journeyman]

2. Who would possibly be so foolish as to threaten a man who scales 12 foot walls and smashes faces...

with the butt of a rifle?

Must be a diversionary tactic, so Dylan Davies can position himself to show the world again what a magnificent stud muffin he be.

[itsrobert]

4. Could he be headed to North Korea?

Disguised as a Japanese Geisha where he will take down the communist government and reunite the North and South?

[Journeyman]

13. That makes more sense than what Lara Logan was selling. . .

[MADem]

16. "Here I come, to save the daaaaaay........"

[freshwest]

17. Heeyyy... I loved Mighty Mouse when I was a toddler! Then there was that Christmas Eve horror...

Still traumatized by that.

Well, not really.

I bet you know already what became of him.

Sniff, sniff!

[MADem]

18. What happened? I'm in the dark!!!!! nt

[freshwest]

20. It was... let me confess what happened that Christmas...

Okay, my mother and I would sit up at night on the sofa and look at the Christmas tree with all the lights. We saw him sitting up like a person, unafraid, looking up at the lights, for few nights in a row.

My mother pointed out to me the way he was acting, it seemed natural to us. It was just one of those things, you know. He wasn't dirty or anything, just a little gray mouse that came in from the prairie.

Sadly, my brother, being practical or protective or whatever, put a mousetrap out and he met his end. I remember running to my mother the next morning yellling:

'Mother! He killed Mighty Mouse! He killed Mighty Mouse!'

And so it went. We were really into television in those days, got up and watched the test signal in the mornings, LOL.

[MADem]

22. OMG....I'm feeling all "Little House on the Prarie" with your story...and then it morphs into

Stephen KING!!!!!!!

Cue the "Psycho" music!!!!!

Gaaaaaaaah!!!!!!

No wonder you're bummed!

Here, let me replace that imagery for you...that was a DIFFERENT mouse that died, you see...your mouse went off and became an ASTRONAUT!!!



http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mousetronaut-mark-kelly/1110911756

And the book about his exploits was written by Gabby Gifford's husband!!

There, there...all better now!!!

[freshwest]

24. Wow, that's a mood changer! I have some very good Christmas memories. Love those trees. It was long

before I fell head over heels for Bugs Bunny. My hero and role model, a very large influence in my single digit years.

My brother had to take on a lot of responsibility in the household. His ideas of nutrition were also shaped by television.

He bought us plenty of spinach (Popeye and all of that), Vitamin D whole milk (to prevent the rickets), fresh tomatoes (not sure why, but a good idea), Hershey's chocolate syrup and Mars candy bars, (since chocolate is one of the five food groups), Eggo Waffles (that I got very good at toasting and buttering for breakfast), but he burned the fried eggs (did his best, he did) and got us started on candy cigarettes (quite good).

Ah, yes, the consumer culture of the unwashed masses of the fifties. Then he joined the Air Force and never came back but always kept in touch.

From there our kid cuisine advanced to Swanson TV dinners when both parents were at work all the time.



Oh, and Delicious apples from Washington state.

It's a wonder I survived...

[MADem]

27. I lived overseas for much of my childhood, and I LOVED those

tee vee dinners!!!! We rarely got that kind of food, except when we were back in the land of the free, and when we did, it was such a treat! There was enough aluminum in that tray to do some light welding!

Those were some sturdy, rib-sticking meals...I remember one that was called something like swiss steak (it was glorified hamburger) and a fried chicken one that was probably filled with all sorts of additives, but it tasted good to my palate! And oh, that little dessert-y thing in the middle!

When there are too many kids (and there were, with us) that probably was a pricey option--cheaper to just give the little rugrats meat loaf and be done with it!

[Bjorn Against]

3. He won't answer questions about the book because of "threats"?

Is he worried the reporter might shoot him in the middle of the interview? Or is he just claiming there are threats as a convenient excuse to avoid the press and not have to answer any questions that might expose his lies further?

[HooptieWagon]

14. Ding, ding! We have a winner!

Yep, he's hiding from the media. Probably process servers, too.

[tenderfoot]

5. Lara Logan and her defense contractor husband are letting him use their extra bedroom.

eom

[Heather MC]

6. Ohh nice the one with the guest hot tub for 4? Lucky lying bastard

[bluestate10]

7. One would think that a man that climbed an 12 foot wall with rampaging terrorists

all around and gun butted one of them senseless, then sneaked into a hospital that was surrounded by al quida wouldn't give a shit about a puny threat. Come on Dylan, take your shirt off, stand in the middle of a New York sidewalk and man down anyone that fucks with you.

[snooper2]

8. If he's got some money maybe he can shack up with Snowy in Moscow?

Play chess, watch the snow and talk about 'Merica!

[Mojorabbit]

32. I doubt Snowden would have him as company.

Snowden seems to have a sense of morals. This one not so much. I still wonder if he is a spook and doing this to discredit the President re the Benghazi incident and almost pulled it off.

[TomClash]

9. What was he threatened with?

The truth?

[LisaLynne]

11. He is threatened that people are not buying his lies.

It's very threatening!

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Winner!

[struggle4progress]

10. "Craps! I got caught lyin! I wonder if mebbe I can lie my way outta this"

[freshwest]

19. Must find way to blame Obama!

[MADem]

15. Oh bullshit. The only thing that was threatened was his foolish pride.

And that's been eviscerated already....

And he had to leave his home in south Wales? Hell, everyone knows everyone else in those villages; you can see a stranger coming a mile away (except maybe in summertime when the tourists come), and it is a four hour slog to London...he's safe as houses there!

He probably doesn't want to listen to the mocking of his neighbors, that's why he's shoved off.

[libdem4life]

21. What's even more disturbing is "his family"... what happens to the wife, kids, relationships

furniture, pets etc. after all of this? Very sad for them.

[freshwest]

25. I'm sure they'll join him in his well-funded exile to some libertarian paradise.

[libdem4life]

29. That was the point..what kid wants to be in exile in some political hideout. But don't know the

age of the kids...little ones, maybe not so much, adolescents and teens would just "die", along with the preceding reputation. Anyway, mostly rhetorical, I suppose. Yet, just having him for a father would be scarring enough.

[Iggo]

30. Somalia?

[CoffeeCat]

23. Whoever concocted this carousel of lies...

...is the person(s) who is (are) hiding him.

They want him out of the public eye while this story is hot.

This entire 60 Minutes piece was a contrived political hit. Find out who orchestrated it, and
you'll find the people who have sent Davies to Bora Bora for a while--until things cool down.

[freshwest]

26. Patriot News, Free Republic and Before It's News already have the anwers!

BOMBSHELL: Clinton Directed False Flag in Benghazi to Instigate WW III in Middle East

That's from BIN and a quick google showing a few results. I won't link, but you know that is where this is going... Wait for it...

[Blue Owl]

28. Dylan Davies, if that is your real name

n/t

[Dawson Leery]

31. Dylan Davies, crybaby. He was exposed as a liar and paid propagandist.

He has just run into the corner to cry.