November 15, 2013

CBS’s Flawed ‘60 Minutes’ Report

The guy they interviewed about Benghazi wasn’t actually there that night. Oops.

Two weeks ago, CBS’s “60 Minutes” featured a report on Benghazi that we noted. The report included an interview with a former British soldier and security officer at the installation with the pseudonym Morgan Jones. We now know his real name is Dylan Davies. He told CBS’s Lara Logan that he was at the compound the night of the attack, when he confronted an attacker and saw the body of Ambassador Chris Stevens.

However, prior to the interview Davies filed a report with the FBI indicating that he was not at the compound the night of the attack. When CBS realized their mistake, Logan apologized. “We worked on this for a year,” she said. But “we were misled and we were wrong and that’s the important thing, that’s what we have to say here. We have to set the record straight and take responsibility.”

The error, of course, is regrettable for “60 Minutes,” especially given that the media outlet had the guts to go after the story of the Obama administration’s gross dereliction at Benghazi. Yet even had the report been completely accurate, it still missed the essence of the story. The Obama White House left the U.S. consulate in Benghazi woefully under-defended, and then didn’t respond when they received calls for help. Four Americans, including the ambassador, were killed by al-Qaida-related terrorists, and then Obama and his cadres spent the 2012 presidential campaign lying about the attack and the status of al-Qaida as “on the run” in order to ensure the president’s re-election. “60 Minutes” would have been better off taking that angle than interviewing a guy with a thrilling but phony story.

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