Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
The star survivor and witness that 60 Minutes interviewed last Sunday is a complete liar.
via Media Matters
The October 27 60 Minutes segment featured Davies and his seemingly heroic efforts “scaling” the compound’s 12 foot wall, disabling a terrorist “with the butt end of a rifle” and ultimately seeing the lifeless body of Ambassador Chris Stevens in the hospital. But according to the Post, Davies wrote in his incident report the day after the attack that he spent most of that night at his Benghazi beach-side villa and learned of Stevens’ death from a colleague.
According to the Washington Post, this is how Davies described the night to his superiors.
In Davies’s 21 / 2-page incident report to Blue Mountain, the Britain-based contractor hired by the State Department to handle perimeter security at the compound, he wrote that he spent most of that night at his Benghazi beach-side villa. Although he attempted to get to the compound, he wrote in the report, “we could not get anywhere near . . . as roadblocks had been set up.”
He learned of Stevens’s death, Davies wrote, when a Libyan colleague who had been at the hospital came to the villa to show him a cellphone picture of the ambassador’s blackened corpse.
It’s possible that Davies lied to his employer rather than 60 minutes, but let’s be realistic.
It is more likely that he scaled a 12-foot wall and disabled a terrorist “with the butt end of a rifle,” or that he was chilling on the beach that night?
The more plausible scenario is that his incident report is an accurate account and the story he gave to 60 Minutes was bullshit he concocted for fame and possibly fortune. Davies reportedly asked Fox News for money.
This should give us all a new perspective on the mesmerizing gullibility and naivety of Senator Lindsey Graham who, in the wake of the 60 Minutes report, declared that he would block all nominations until someone tucks him in and tells him a comforting bed-time story about the Obama administration’s failure in Benghazi.
To be fair, scaling a 12-foot wall and engaging the evil-doers in hand-to-hand combat before observing the ambassador’s body in the hospital would make for a much better movie than the story of a guy who spent most of the night at a beach-side villa, was thwarted by a roadblock, and saw the ambassador’s body on a cellphone.