01/22/2024

BENGHAZI - BLUE MOUNTAIN

The Oct. 27 report focused on ex-security officer Dylan Davies and was intended to be the first Western eyewitness account of the attack on the U.S. compound that left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead. Davies – who had written a book detailing his purported experience under the pseudonym Morgan Jones - told 60 Minutes that he defied orders from his employer, security firm Blue Mountain, to stay at his villa as the attack unfolded. Instead, Davies told “60 Minutes” that he raced to the compound and engaged the attackers.

In addition, the CBS News review said Logan's assertions that al Qaeda carried out the attack and controlled the hospital were not adequately attributed in her report.  The report also took issue with a speech Logan gave in October of 2012, one month before starting work on the Benghazi story.

"Logan made a speech in which she took a strong public position arguing that the US Government was misrepresenting the threat from Al Qaeda, and urging actions that the US should take in response to the Benghazi attack," the report says. "From a CBS News Standards perspective, there is a conflict in taking a public position on the government’s handling of Benghazi and Al Qaeda, while continuing to report on the story."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-asks-lara-logan-to-take-leave-after-flawed-benghazi-report/

Internal review of now discredited "60 Minutes" story found reporting “deficient in several respects”

www.cbsnews.com