"CBS Considers Coming Clean"

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CBS Considers Coming Clean

by Josh Marshall at TPM

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cbs-considers-coming-clean

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The problems really got started when the Washington Post discovered that Davies had written an after action report to his employers three days after the incident in which he said he was never even able to get to the consulate the night of the attack. Which would mean that none of the things he told 60 Minutes could have happened.

Davies gave the Daily Beast the preposterously ludicrous explanation that he had lied to his superiors days after the account with a prosaic and unremarkable account of his actions but told the truth in his memoir and 60 Minutes appearance when there was money and fame to be had peddling tales about Benghazi heroics to the Benghazi conspiracy community. For good measure, Davies said he didn't write the report, despite its being written in the first person.

Then today the New York Times reported that not only did Davies 'lie' to his supervisors at the time for no plausible reason. He apparently also 'lied' to the FBI, when they interviewed him, for no plausible reason other than to keep secret his heroic exploits the night of the attack.

Huffpo's Michael Calderone has written two good stories about the unraveling story and CBS's refusal to address the apparent problems with the story.




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1. Lara Logan should be shitcanned

Honestly, this story is garbage - outright lies by a fabricator. And she let it on to the hollowed ground of 60 Minutes. She should be ashamed of herself. And she should be fired.

[MADem]

2. +1 -- she really damaged the brand, too. nt