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Tx4obama

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1. ... the man identified in the report as Morgan Jones... real name was confirmed as Dylan Davies...
Sun Nov 3, 2013, 09:10 PM
Nov 2013


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. CBS’s 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 Davies’s 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 Stevens’s 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 ambassador’s 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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... the man identified in the report as Morgan Jones... real name was confirmed as Dylan Davies... Tx4obama Nov 2013 #1
Lara Logan is a hardcore Neocon/rightwinger. geek tragedy Nov 2013 #2
She is. Lara Logan is deep, deep in the security complex. She is even married to bluestate10 Nov 2013 #3
i've always found her to be brave samsingh Nov 2013 #6
Lara Logan is not a neocon samsingh Nov 2013 #7
"Shoot ’em, bomb ’em, fuck ’em. They will kill your children.” geek tragedy Nov 2013 #16
i've read some more of her speeches and found them to be troubling samsingh Nov 2013 #19
Too bad. tblue Nov 2013 #34
Oh yeah - she openly admitted to currying favor with closeupready Nov 2013 #11
She's tough--served many dangerous assignments--but has gone off the deep end geek tragedy Nov 2013 #17
I view her as unprofessional. northoftheborder Nov 2013 #26
Michael Hastings & Lara Logan illustrate difference between afflicting & serving powerful deurbano Nov 2013 #13
so then no one lost their job? for airing something bogus? ejpoeta Nov 2013 #4
Fox lite. Scuba Nov 2013 #5
Dear 60 Minutes: Your shit smells like beautiful perfume Blue Owl Nov 2013 #8
R#16 & K n/t UTUSN Nov 2013 #9
I'm boycotting CBS News. Blue_In_AK Nov 2013 #10
It doesn't surprise me. Beacool Nov 2013 #12
60 Minutes lost 1 more viewer! B Calm Nov 2013 #14
Sadly, I expected nothing less. SchmerzImArsch Nov 2013 #15
Shame on the courts for ruling that a news org can force reporters to lie. grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #18
Haven't watched that BS show since mikeysnot Nov 2013 #20
Same here. Get news online, and perspective from DU! AAO Nov 2013 #37
Don Hewitt would be disgusted lpbk2713 Nov 2013 #21
The 4th estate have been given ctsnowman Nov 2013 #22
I really hadn't expected a retraction! CBS bought, sold & delivered! hue Nov 2013 #23
they really need to do a follow up Mikeystyle Nov 2013 #24
Isn't it... DirtyDawg Nov 2013 #25
I knew his story was bogus veganlush Nov 2013 #27
The 12-foot wall did it for me nt Link Speed Nov 2013 #28
we can no longer rely on our media to provide the truth or even both sides of a story. spanone Nov 2013 #29
60 minutes died PatrynXX Nov 2013 #30
Television News has lost its way Stainless Nov 2013 #31
Absolutely true about the sheep warrant46 Nov 2013 #36
K&R lillypaddle Nov 2013 #32
Hmmm, sounds like this things needs a boycott of their sponsors..... DeSwiss Nov 2013 #33
The M$M has a narrative to follow and has nothing to do with reporting Rex Nov 2013 #35
Seems CBS is whoring for Ken Cootchinelly. Rain Mcloud Nov 2013 #38
I noticed that, too. Hard to believe those 3 letters were representative!! JEFF9K Nov 2013 #39
Our nation turns its' lonely eyes to you Iwillnevergiveup Nov 2013 #40
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