Media Matters: CBS "Eyewitness" Admits He Lied About Benghazi Attack While Bashing Critics

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CBS "Eyewitness" Admits He Lied About Benghazi Attack While Bashing Critics

25 minutes ago ››› HANNAH GROCH-BEGLEY

CBS News' source for their discredited report on the Benghazi attack, Dylan Davies, accused Media Matters of conducting a coordinated smear campaign against him, while simultaneously admitting he falsified statements about his experience of the Benghazi attack.

On October 27, CBS' 60 Minutes featured "Morgan Jones," -- The Washington Post later revealed his real name, Dylan Davies -- a supposed "eyewitness" of the September 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities, who claimed that during the attack he scaled a wall of the compound, personally struck a terrorist in the face with his rifle butt, and later went to the Benghazi hospital to see Ambassador Chris Stevens' body.

The story he told CBS wildly diverged from the account he gave his superiors in an incident report that was obtained by The Washington Post. According to the Post, Davies had previously filed a report with his security contractor employer saying that he "could not get anywhere near" the compound the night of the attack.

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But in the same interview, Davies admitted to falsifying his incident report of the Benghazi attacks, undermining his credibility and calling into question his various accounts of the attack.

According to The Daily Beast, Davies explained that he had lied to his supervisor at the security contracting company Blue Mountain Group, "because he did not want his supervisor to know he had disobeyed his orders":

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1. and of course CBS

being the shit bag corporation it has become won't do dick to correct it. I lost all respect for them after they fucked over Dan Rather in the George Bush AWOL incident.