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In reply to the discussion: So . . . a week after 60 Minutes aired that completely bogus Benghazi Bullshit . . . [View all]Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)1. ... the man identified in the report as Morgan Jones... real name was confirmed as Dylan Davies...
Media Matters Founder Calling on 60 Minutes to Retract Report on Benghazi
60 Minutes did a new, in-depth report on the attack at the American consulate in Benghazi last year, and it helped to revitalize the national debate over the attack. CBSs report featured an exclusive with a man who recounted what he witnessed, but Media Matters founder David Brock is calling on 60 Minutes to retract the report for a big error.
The key criticism here surrounds the man identified in the report as Morgan Jones (though his real name was confirmed as Dylan Davies afterwards). He told 60 Minutes he was witness to the attack, and described what he saw around him, but a Washington Post report on Thursday says that does not match his earlier testimony on the matter, just three days after the attack on the compound.
In Daviess 21 / 2-page incident report to Blue Mountain, the Britain-based contractor hired by the State Department to handle perimeter security at the compound, he wrote that he spent most of that night at his Benghazi beach-side villa. Although he attempted to get to the compound, he wrote in the report, we could not get anywhere near . . . as roadblocks had been set up.
He learned of Stevenss death, Davies wrote, when a Libyan colleague who had been at the hospital came to the villa to show him a cellphone picture of the ambassadors blackened corpse. Davies wrote that he visited the still-smoking compound the next day to view and photograph the destruction.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/media-matters-founder-calling-on-60-minutes-to-retract-report-on-benghazi/
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So . . . a week after 60 Minutes aired that completely bogus Benghazi Bullshit . . . [View all]
Stinky The Clown
Nov 2013
OP
... the man identified in the report as Morgan Jones... real name was confirmed as Dylan Davies...
Tx4obama
Nov 2013
#1
She is. Lara Logan is deep, deep in the security complex. She is even married to
bluestate10
Nov 2013
#3
She's tough--served many dangerous assignments--but has gone off the deep end
geek tragedy
Nov 2013
#17
Michael Hastings & Lara Logan illustrate difference between afflicting & serving powerful
deurbano
Nov 2013
#13
Shame on the courts for ruling that a news org can force reporters to lie.
grahamhgreen
Nov 2013
#18