Questions about 60 Minutes Benghazi go beyond Davies interview; CBS conducting 'journalistic review'

[Newsjock]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Full original title; did not fit here:
Questions about ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi go beyond Dylan Davies interview; CBS conducting ‘journalistic review’

When “60 Minutes,” perhaps the United States’ premier news program, apologized for featuring a security contractor in its report on Benghazi whose story turned out to be a lie, it said had been “misled.” But a close examination of the controversial piece by McClatchy shows that there are other problems with the report, whose broadcast renewed debate about one of the most contentious events in recent U.S. diplomatic history.

In its first acknowledgement that the issues with the report may go deeper than just the interview with security supervisor Dylan Davies, CBS on Wednesday, in response to a series of questions posed by McClatchy, said that it had undertaken “a journalistic review that is ongoing.”

... Moreover, questions remain over how far in advance the attack on the U.S. compound was planned. Rather than a long-planned attack, investigators have told McClatchy the attack was likely planned hours, rather than days, in advance.

Another questionable assertion in the “60 Minutes” report was Logan’s unsourced reference to the Benghazi Medical Center as “under the control of al Qaida terrorists,” an assertion that McClatchy correspondents on the ground at the time and subsequent reporting in Benghazi indicates is untrue.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/13/208446/questions-about-60-minutes-benghazi.html

[doc03]

1. They make a mistake reporting on a Republican heads roll, a Democrat they

have a journalistic reveiw.

[JHB]

14. One big difference there: they wanted Rather's head for 30 years

Rather reported from Vietnam in 1966, making him one of the "liberal press" bringing the war into living rooms and blamed for turning public opinion against the war. He questioned Nixon aggressively and was accused of not putting the same vigor into questioning Democrats.

The 1980s were an open RW hate-fest for Rather and CBS for reportage of various Reagan dirty dealings. Jesse Helms and his coterie promoted a scheme for conservatives to buy shares in CBS because it was the most "anti-Reagan" network and with a sales pitch of "become Dan Rather's boss".

To the Right, Rather was the avatar of "liberal media bias". They wanted his head on a pike, and the problem with the documents used in the Bush story (even though they weren't the critical element) gave them the chance.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. Odd that we accept FNC "errors" with a grain of salt, yet CBS has lost journalistic credibility.

For me Lara Logan is now completely untrustworthy. I think CBS executives do too.

[Chakab]

5. She's been a hack for a long time. I remember her nonsense about how Michael Hastings "betrayed"

General McChrystal. A lot of people stopped being critical of her after that horrific attack that she suffered in Egypt.

[SDjack]

3. Follow the money -- all the way back to the Koch Bros. nt

[starroute]

6. I think this one is more likely to lead to Dick Cheney

Mary Matalin, the editor-in-chief at Threshold Books, is tight with the Cheney family. She was also running propaganda operations for the White House in 2004-05 when the Lincoln Group -- the employer of Logan's former husband -- was planting pro-US stories in Iraqi newspapers.

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/gop-strategist-and-liz-cheney-ally-mary-matalin-inspires-sheridan/article_64cef113-c652-5f20-acb1-89169198c99f.html

August 11, 2013

Republicans in Sheridan County rushed to get face time and photos with GOP insider and Cheney family confidant Mary Matalin on Saturday.

Donning cowboy boots and a turquoise necklace, Matalin dressed the part of a modern-day cowgirl to give the keynote speech for the Sheridan County GOP’s Reagan Day Dinner at the new Edward A. Whitney Education Center at Sheridan College on Saturday night. . . .

It’s no coincidence that the Cheney family friends were together at the event on Saturday. Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, gave the keynote speech last year. She’s been traveling county by county in her quest to take the seat of fellow Republican Mike Enzi, Wyoming’s senior U.S. senator, in the 2014 midterm elections. Also, GOP members in Sheridan asked Cheney to bring Matalin, former counselor to Dick Cheney and wife of Democrat political strategist James Carville, for this year’s event. . . .

“I am thrilled I could bring my dear friend Mary Matalin here,” <Liz> Cheney said.


(On edit: Matalin also published Cheney's memoirs two years ago. http://www.newsmax.com/US/Cheney-book-Matalin-Bush/2011/05/19/id/396988)

[starroute]

7. And of course Cheney has been flogging Benghazi for all it's worth

Notice that Cheney's latest outburst came on October 24 -- just three days before the 60 Minutes broadcast. That doesn't prove he knew what was coming, but it does raise red flags.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/benghazi-lies-dick-cheney-iraq

May. 15, 2013

Dick Cheney has never been short on chutzpah. Jumping aboard the GOP scandal-mongering machine, the former vice president appeared on Fox News (where else?) and declared to Sean Hannity (who else?) that President Barack Obama and his aides "lied" about the attack in Benghazi, Libya, last September that left four Americans dead. "I think it's one of the worst incidents frankly that I can recall in my career," Cheney huffed—as if 9/11 had never happened. The former veep went the full Monty and echoed (discredited) right-wing charges that the Obama administration refused to deploy military forces to help Ambassador Chris Stevens and other Americans when they were assaulted in Benghazi.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/dick-cheney-hillary-clinton_n_4163340.html

10/25/2013

Former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on conservative Hugh Hewitt’s radio program Thursday, criticizing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her handling of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Cheney chastised Clinton for what he perceived as an evasion of responsibility over the tragedy that claimed the lives of four people, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

“She clearly wasn’t hands on, and now she doesn’t want to be hands on. And she’s doing everything she can to avoid responsibility for what clearly fell into her bailiwick,” Cheney said. “And what I always recall is her testimony saying, ‘What difference does it make?’ And the fact of the matter is it makes a huge difference.”

In May, Cheney went so far as to suggest that Clinton "should be subpoenaed if necessary" for her role as secretary of state during the Benghazi attack.

[mainer]

4. OK, this is far worse than just one bad source

This is multiple lies, from multiple sources, broadcast as the truth.

Just this morning, I wasn't sure Lara Logan should be fired. Now I completely agree she HAS TO GO.

[cosmicone]

8. Lara Logan should be fired n/t

[Arugula Latte]

9. Link to Lara Logan's Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/laralogan

[BuddhaGirl]

13. LOL - there are no recent posts from her

but LOTS from others, commenting on her journalistic "integrity"

[KamaAina]

10. Bring back Dan Rather!

[Blue Owl]

11. Probe that Propaganda Proper

n/t

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Newsjock.