Benghazi revisited
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Update: The list of shame.
Carolyn Maloney
Danny Davis
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Gerald E. Connolly
Jim Cooper
John Tierney
Mark Pocan
Matt Cartwright
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Peter Welch
Stephen Lynch
Steven Horsford
Tammy Duckworth
Tony Cardenas
William Lacy Clay
UNREAL: Democrats Walk Out of House Hearing Before Parents of Benghazi Heroes Testify – Update: List of Dems Who Walked Out Added… | Weasel Zippers
Danny Davis
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Gerald E. Connolly
Jim Cooper
John Tierney
Mark Pocan
Matt Cartwright
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Peter Welch
Stephen Lynch
Steven Horsford
Tammy Duckworth
Tony Cardenas
William Lacy Clay
UNREAL: Democrats Walk Out of House Hearing Before Parents of Benghazi Heroes Testify – Update: List of Dems Who Walked Out Added… | Weasel Zippers
60 minutes exposes Benghazi but never mentions Hillaryous or BHO.
60 Minutes: Benghazi - 60 Minutes - CBS News
60 Minutes: Benghazi - 60 Minutes - CBS News
Ooops, 60 Minute's Benghazi Source Is A Liar
Don't you just hate it when you do a big story to satisfy the wing nuts and to show you're "fair and balanced" and it turns out your main source for the story is a liar?!
The man whom CBS called Morgan Jones, a pseudonym (whose real name was confirmed as Dylan Davies), described racing to the Benghazi compound while the attack was underway, scaling a 12-foot wall and downing an extremist with the butt end of a rifle as he tried in vain to rescue the besieged Americans.
But here's what he wrote in a report to his employer three days after the attack.
In Davies’s 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.
‘60 Minutes’ broadcast helps propel new round of back-and-forth on Benghazi - The Washington Post
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Here's How CBS Correspondent Lara Logan Describes Her Dubious Benghazi Witness | Blog | Media Matters for America
Don't you just hate it when you do a big story to satisfy the wing nuts and to show you're "fair and balanced" and it turns out your main source for the story is a liar?!
The man whom CBS called Morgan Jones, a pseudonym (whose real name was confirmed as Dylan Davies), described racing to the Benghazi compound while the attack was underway, scaling a 12-foot wall and downing an extremist with the butt end of a rifle as he tried in vain to rescue the besieged Americans.
But here's what he wrote in a report to his employer three days after the attack.
In Davies’s 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.
‘60 Minutes’ broadcast helps propel new round of back-and-forth on Benghazi - The Washington Post
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Here's How CBS Correspondent Lara Logan Describes Her Dubious Benghazi Witness | Blog | Media Matters for America
Lara Logan to take leave of absence from ‘60 Minutes’
By Paul Farhi, Published: November 26
CBS News has ordered “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan and her producer to take an unspecified leave of absence in the wake of an internal review that found numerous flaws in their reporting of a story about the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.
Logan’s Oct. 27 story on “60 Minutes” relied on the account of a British security contractor named Dylan Davies, who said he was an eyewitness to the attack. In fact, Davies — who was promoting a book about the episode published by a CBS subsidiary — was nowhere near the American facility on the night of the attack.
Following an internal review, Al Ortiz, executive director of standards and practices at CBS News, wrote that the “60 Minutes” story was “deficient in several respects.” Ortiz concluded that Logan and producer Max McClellan “did not sufficiently vet Davies’ account” of his actions on the night of the attack.
In the wake of Ortiz’s report, CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager said he asked Logan and producer McClellan to take a leave of absence from the network. Both have agreed, Fager wrote in an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.
Among Ortiz’s findings, also contained in an internal memo obtained Tuesday:
●Logan’s report aired without “60 Minutes” knowing about statements Davies made about his whereabouts on the night of the attack to the FBI and State Department investigators. Davies told the investigators that he had not witnessed the attack, contrary to what Logan reported.
●Davies’s statements to the FBI and the State Department “were knowable” before the story aired. “But the wider reporting resources of CBS News were not employed in an effort to confirm his account,” Ortiz wrote. “It’s possible that reporters and producers with better access to inside FBI sources could have found out that Davies had given varying and conflicting accounts of his story.”
●The fact that Davies had lied to his employer, Blue Mountain Group, about where he was on the night of the attack “should have been a red flag in the editorial vetting process.”
●Logan’s assertions that al-Qaeda operatives had carried out the attacks and controlled the hospital where J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was taken “were not adequately attributed in her report.”
●“60 Minutes” erred in not disclosing on the air that Davies’s book, “The Embassy House,” was published by an imprint of Simon & Schuster, part of the CBS Corp. The book has been withdrawn from circulation.
●It was “a conflict” for Logan to make a speech in October 2012 in which she argued that the United States was playing down the threat from al-Qaeda and urged military action to avenge the Benghazi attack.
More at link: Lara Logan to take leave of absence from ‘60 Minutes’ - The Washington Post
This is clearly another nefarious move by the scary black man to silence Real Americans.
By Paul Farhi, Published: November 26
CBS News has ordered “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan and her producer to take an unspecified leave of absence in the wake of an internal review that found numerous flaws in their reporting of a story about the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.
Logan’s Oct. 27 story on “60 Minutes” relied on the account of a British security contractor named Dylan Davies, who said he was an eyewitness to the attack. In fact, Davies — who was promoting a book about the episode published by a CBS subsidiary — was nowhere near the American facility on the night of the attack.
Following an internal review, Al Ortiz, executive director of standards and practices at CBS News, wrote that the “60 Minutes” story was “deficient in several respects.” Ortiz concluded that Logan and producer Max McClellan “did not sufficiently vet Davies’ account” of his actions on the night of the attack.
In the wake of Ortiz’s report, CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager said he asked Logan and producer McClellan to take a leave of absence from the network. Both have agreed, Fager wrote in an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.
Among Ortiz’s findings, also contained in an internal memo obtained Tuesday:
●Logan’s report aired without “60 Minutes” knowing about statements Davies made about his whereabouts on the night of the attack to the FBI and State Department investigators. Davies told the investigators that he had not witnessed the attack, contrary to what Logan reported.
●Davies’s statements to the FBI and the State Department “were knowable” before the story aired. “But the wider reporting resources of CBS News were not employed in an effort to confirm his account,” Ortiz wrote. “It’s possible that reporters and producers with better access to inside FBI sources could have found out that Davies had given varying and conflicting accounts of his story.”
●The fact that Davies had lied to his employer, Blue Mountain Group, about where he was on the night of the attack “should have been a red flag in the editorial vetting process.”
●Logan’s assertions that al-Qaeda operatives had carried out the attacks and controlled the hospital where J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was taken “were not adequately attributed in her report.”
●“60 Minutes” erred in not disclosing on the air that Davies’s book, “The Embassy House,” was published by an imprint of Simon & Schuster, part of the CBS Corp. The book has been withdrawn from circulation.
●It was “a conflict” for Logan to make a speech in October 2012 in which she argued that the United States was playing down the threat from al-Qaeda and urged military action to avenge the Benghazi attack.
More at link: Lara Logan to take leave of absence from ‘60 Minutes’ - The Washington Post
This is clearly another nefarious move by the scary black man to silence Real Americans.
Actually, Fox and CNN are fairly even on opinion/factual reporting, while leftist MSNBC simply can't stop preaching.....
The Changing TV News Landscape | State of the Media
It is, of course, a huge reach to include Fox in an article about CBS lying....but I know the left can't really think outside the mantra.
Oh, and Rather's story on Bush was definitely NOT true, but taken from documents created on modern technology that claimed to be from the 1970s. Rather's lawsuit against CBS for firing him was thrown out, found to be without merit.
Once again, facts apart from the mantra.
The actual, official title of the editorial by the Newark Star-Ledger is:
What Chris Christie bridge scandal? Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi
Somehow, the right’s response to Chris Christie’s still-breaking Bridgegate scandal has devolved into this: Why are you writing about New Jersey traffic jams, because Benghazi!
What Chris Christie bridge scandal? Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi
Somehow, the right’s response to Chris Christie’s still-breaking Bridgegate scandal has devolved into this: Why are you writing about New Jersey traffic jams, because Benghazi!
Turkey has temporarily pulled its diplomatic staff out of the Libyan city of Benghazi and urged its nationals to leave the east of the country amid mounting security concerns, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Saturday.
Turkey is one of the last countries to maintain a diplomatic presence in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador was killed during an attack by Islamist militants on the American diplomatic mission in the port city in 2012.
The foreign ministry said its diplomats would continue to work from Tripoli while the Benghazi mission was closed.
The move comes after a huge explosion likely caused by a suicide bomber at an army checkpoint in Barsis, 50 km (30 miles) east of Benghazi killed the attacker and wounded six others late on Wednesday.
Sunni Islamist militants seized the Turkish consulate as they overran the northern Iraqi city of Mosul earlier this week, taking 49 people hostage including the consul general, special forces soldiers and children, and leading to criticism of the foreign ministry for failing to evacuate its staff in good time.
They are among 80 Turkish citizens taken hostage by militants in Iraq in recent days. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday diplomatic efforts were continuing for their release.
Turkey pulls diplomats out of Benghazi, urges nationals to leave | Reuters
Turkey is one of the last countries to maintain a diplomatic presence in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador was killed during an attack by Islamist militants on the American diplomatic mission in the port city in 2012.
The foreign ministry said its diplomats would continue to work from Tripoli while the Benghazi mission was closed.
The move comes after a huge explosion likely caused by a suicide bomber at an army checkpoint in Barsis, 50 km (30 miles) east of Benghazi killed the attacker and wounded six others late on Wednesday.
Sunni Islamist militants seized the Turkish consulate as they overran the northern Iraqi city of Mosul earlier this week, taking 49 people hostage including the consul general, special forces soldiers and children, and leading to criticism of the foreign ministry for failing to evacuate its staff in good time.
They are among 80 Turkish citizens taken hostage by militants in Iraq in recent days. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday diplomatic efforts were continuing for their release.
Turkey pulls diplomats out of Benghazi, urges nationals to leave | Reuters
Are you referring to the 14 minute video called Innocence of Muslims? That's the video Obama and Hillary identified as the cause of the Ansar al Sharia attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi.