The Last Refuge:
The progressive agenda is transparent, even when the White House is not…
Just over half the nation wants further investigation into the September 2012 terrorist killings of American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, in part because an even larger percentage of the country does not believe that President Obama’s team has told the full story about the simmering scandal.
Rasmussen Reports revealed in a new poll that 51 percent want the investigation to go forward. The House last week ordered up a special panel to investigate the killings of the U.S. ambassador and several others and how the administration handled the crisis.
Worse for Obama, Rasmussen found that 59 percent feel it is unlikely the administration has revealed all of the details of the episode. And 50 percent are not satisfied with the administration’s story they’ve heard. (read more)
On cue, and amid the new Benghazi false narrative revelations; and having isolated Sharyl Attkisson, New York mag strikes back to marginalize another Benghazi reporter.
[…] [Lara] Logan was launched. She became chief foreign correspondent in only three years and a top correspondent on 60 Minutestwo years after that.
But last fall, after a deeply flawed 60 Minutesreport on the attack in Benghazi, Libya, the trajectory of her career, along with that of CBS’s flagship news show, changed abruptly.
Logan and 60 Minutes had been searching for a new angle on the Benghazi story for the better part of a year, and finally one seemed to arrive. The break in the story came from a hulking, goateed former military contractor who called himself “Morgan Jones.”
Jones, whose real name is Dylan Davies, told Logan an emotional tale of witnessing the attack firsthand—climbing an embassy wall in order to engage the combatants, then stepping into the breach as Washington dithered. Relentlessly hyped in the days leading up to the broadcast, the story fit broadly into the narrative the right had been trying for months to build of a White House and State Department oblivious to the dangers of Al Qaeda, feckless in their treatment of their soldiers and diplomats, then covering up their incompetence. It was soon revealed to be made up almost of whole cloth. Davies, who worked for a security firm called Blue Mountain, had invented the story to sell a book.
For 60 Minutes and Logan, it was a stunning error, of a sort that can quickly corrode the brand of a show like 60 Minutes. And the scandal was an oddly precise echo of “Rathergate,” when Dan Rather, at the Wednesday edition of 60 Minutes in 2004, used memos of dubious provenance in a report on George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service.
It’s interesting that this Benghazi story is considered false because Logan said they learned that the story told by Davies didn’t match what he told federal investigators.
So, now wait a minute.
Davies gave photographs and documents to her along with his ”story.”
Obama didn’t want that ”narrative” out there at all.
Obama already had all sorts of spying ability he could use to blackmail a man like Davies into saying only what agreed with the Obama narrative.
So, what about the evidence?
Do Davies’ photos and documents back up Obama’s narrative or the story Davies told to Logan in the first place?
There’s no way to know which Davies version is ”the truth.”
Perhaps he changed his story to save his own skin from something Obama held over him that would have been much worse.
Perhaps Breitbart or FOX should hire her. I saw part of the footage where she was sexually assaulted in Tahir Square. CBS seemed to not want to cover her story at all, which mirrors that of the rapes of a good many young women by mobs of Islamist radicals all over the Mideast.