Contractor lied to CBS reporter about role in Benghazi
We all saw the video in which Dylan Davies told CBS reporter Lara Logan about his daring-do at the consulate in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012. Well, it turns out that he told the FBI that he didn’t get to the consulate until the following morning according to the New York Times;
The reporter, Lara Logan, said on “CBS This Morning’’ that the news division was misled by the officer, adding, “We will apologize to our viewers, and we will correct the record on our broadcast on Sunday night.”
The apology followed disclosure by The New York Times on Thursday evening that the security contractor, Dylan Davies, had provided the F.B.I. an account that contradicted a version of events he provided in a recently published book and in the interview with “60 Minutes,” which was broadcast on Oct. 27.
Mr. Davies told the F.B.I. that he was not on the scene until the morning after the attack.
The information he provided in an F.B.I. interview was described on Thursday by two senior government officials as consistent with an incident report by the Blue Mountain security business, which had been hired to protect United States interests in Benghazi. The officials who spoke said they had been briefed on the government investigation.
So, Logan and CBS have been trying to get a hold of Davies since they’ve seen the FBI report, and Davies ain’t answering his phone. Typical. Even more typical, he told The Daily Beast that he denied the FBI’s report and his interview with them. of course, it’s legal to lie to the media, but it’s not legal to lie to the FBI.
“I am just a little man against some big people here,” Davies said. “They can do things, make up things, anything they want, I wouldn’t stand a chance.” Davies said he did not know who leaked the report to the Post but said he suspected it was the State Department, an allegation that could not be independently corroborated. “It would not be difficult to do,” Davies said. “I knew I was going to come in for a lot of flack and you know mud slinging, so yeah I’d say it was them, but I can’t be sure.”
It’s as if they have a book with a checklist and a script. Thanks to the dozens of you who sent the link.
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Oh, dear me.
“I lied, I got caught, and all those people are against me.” Yeah, isn’t stolen valor, etc., a real bitch, now?
I’m not being up to my usual antics here but…
This might be about a poser *or* it might be about the FBI having gotten to the witnesses with some serious threats.
There’s been plenty of word gone round that the feds have been putting everyone who might be a witness through the full J. Edgar.
Personally, I have zero faith and/or confidence in the FBI any more. They’re just another part of the D.C. Machine now.
If you decide to fight the big dogs now, you better have some proof of what you say or you can expect to be freight-trained in short order.
It’s gotten to the point where the burden of proof is on the administration. I just don’t believe anything the feds say any longer. That’s pretty sad, but it is what it is.
I guess I’m officially a conspiracy nut. At least I got this fancy tin foil hat.
@4. No, that doesn’t make you a conspiracy nut. It makes you someone who has been paying attention to the administration’s way of doing business: lie, lie, and then lie some more. If obamaman or any one of his appointees told me the time of day, I’d get a second opinion from someone not connected with them.
You know what drives me crazy? Well, aside from that, that, that,that, that, that,that, that, that,that, that, that,that, that, that,that, that, that, and that, I mean. It’s seeing THAT woman’s mug on this website. I never fail to wince when I see it.
If I recall correctly, Davies has a book he’s promoting.
Not sure that the Administration’s pulling a fast one here. Davies has a vested interest in generating sensational publicity. And as Jonn noted, it’s not illegal to lie to the press or the public – but it IS illegal to lie to the FBI.
“Nothing new. Where are the Americans who were there? Why does this man have to use a fake name? And then…THE BOOK PLUG. This report sucked.”
That was my first comment after the Logan report aired and more than a few folks disagreed with it. Now this shit. Gee, if I didn’t know better, I’d say that CBS KNEW it was bullshit when it aired and by unmasking this clown now and apologizing, it serves who? The administration, that’s who. CBS, you will recall, provided the forum for Rice-a-Roni to repeat the BIG LIE. And they have been fairly quiet about the matter ever since. Then comes the 60 Minutes show. I’ll stick with Fox. They have never, ever allowed Benghazi to fall from its pages.
Funny how you left out the part where you completely fell for his bullshit. If he weren’t saying what you love to hear you’d of seen all the “stolen valor” signs (scaled a fence, hit a terrorist with the butt of his rifle etc. etc) But your naivety increases when someone’s putting down the President.
Add this to fast and furious, The IRS and all the other non-scandals you’ve been ginning up.
Sippie! You’re back, misspellings and all – man, we thought someone must have given you new tin foil and the hat must have finally been working!
Well, I see Jonn took pity on Sippy the Pin before he peed his pants waiting to give his inane opinion and show his ignorance. Who knows, maybe Jonn will let him stay for a while if he keeps his mouth in check.
It’s slow at work. Apparently the ban doohickys follow the computer, not the e-mail address. I know Jon can read it and I never liked arguing with half the world anyway, so every so often i’ll post.
But if I’d had been able to post I’d of told you at the time this guy was full of it. It was apparent from the start, to those not blinded by Obama hate.
I don’t think he took pity, Hondo. I think it’s just that i’m using a different computer.
Oh, by the way, your post on Presumptive elligibility Determinations was complete garbage.
Hey, it’s Gay Pornographer Sippy. I’d call him an asshole and a dick but he relishes both.
Yeah, I saw your inane rant on the subject that Jonn killed earlier.
Actually, no – it’s not. While hospitals will be technically required to “use state criteria” in making those determinations, the reality is that they will be allowed to do so unilaterally. That effectively gives the entity who stands to benefit financially from a “yes” determination the power to make that same “yes” determination.
If you don’t think that will be abused, you are one seriously naive – or stupid – individual. It’s a basic principle of any type of financial control system that the entity who stands to benefit is never the same entity who determines whether or not a payment is to occur.
That part of the law will be obeyed with the same fidelity as career criminals obey the current Federal prohibition on felons possessing or using firearms.
So are we going to see more of those five-page posts that change the subject, demonstrate denial of reality and – oh! almost forgot: waste our time trying to sort out what on earth spiffy is trying to say?????
Oh, and for the record, splinky: not everyone here ‘fell for it’, as you put it in so lame a fashion. Some people here actually do have their skepticism switches turned on… especially when you show up.
And again, you’re revealing your complete ignorance as to the way healthcare works and the process. The fact is that hospitals are granted determination status on different things all the time. A hospital may be granted phase 1 trauma center then have it taken away, or allowed to be a cancer registrar and then taken away. If a hospital abuses its privilege, it can certainly be taken away.
Either way, you should of included the hoops that hospitals have to go through in order to get this presumptive eligibility status. That they have to update the computer system, that they have to have People with medicare eligibility pre-certified and that they have to register in the exchange. If you want to say all that’s inadequate than fine. You’d be wrong, but at least you’d be honestly wrong.
Also, i find it completely hysterical that you trust bankers and wall street types to make decisions without big-government intervention but a poor admitting nurse has to ask Uncle Sam to match a drivers license to a data base.
You also left out the fact that 1. the State can still go after the individual if they commit Medicaid fraud and 2. Much the same type of thing is happening NOW with people going into the emergency rooms and getting “free” treatments. Of course this is so because Ronald Reagan signed into law EMTAL (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act). That’s when Republicans were allowed to be sane.
See? I knew this was going to happen. Let it back into the house, and it craps all over the floor.
For crap’s sake, Spiffy, at least get a nominal grasp of grammar, would you? ‘Should’ is the subjunctive. The correct use is ‘should HAVE’. ‘Have’ is a VERB. ‘Of’ is a preposition. Learn the confounded difference, you illiterate twink. Don’t SHOULD on yourself, Spiffy.
And while I’m at it, get off this asinine control freak need of yours to control what everyone around you does. We’re all free people here, and most – make that the majority of us think you’re a dink.
Hey, listen up!
I went to Amazon to try to get a glimpse of the text of Davies’ book, under his pen name Morgan Jones.
The book shows up, with the ‘look inside’ function, but when you click on the links to that and the book itself, you get one of those ‘404’ error messages – page does not exist.
Ooooo! Something must have happened!
He’s not back to stay is he? Please say it ain’t so. If it is so, that asshole can have my seat–so to speak.
I’ve dealt with private security contractors A LOT. There are a lot of good guys out there, but also a lot of fast-talking snake oil salesmen. A lot of guys who HALOed out of the Space Shuttle with a knife between their teeth and personally took out Bin Laden. Just ask them how high speed they are, they’ll tell you.
Pass me the tin foil…
At this point he has more credibility than the entire administration on this. Think about the mountain of evidence against them that they did little to nothing to help out in Libya, but the first person who claims they were there the night of the attack gets batted down? Something is foul in Denmark.
Yea, I noticed that there some people who tend to lie like a son of a bitch. Just kicked one real fine example down the road yesterday. Was thinking about turning it over to Jonn then decided screw it, handed the concerned individual their ass verbally and told them it would be in their best interest to never approach the subject again. They can lie to their friends all they want until law enforcement gets involved or answers a FOIA request and that request sheds a whole other light on the subject. Fuck ’em…and Sippy boi too.
Maybe the Chitown gang used a planted fraud to cast doubth on any furture witnesses that tell real stories. ARed Herring? Joe
I see that one nasty little segment of the Human Leftist Centipede is bored before the next feeding time…