Showing posts with label Brandon Webb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brandon Webb. Show all posts

Thursday, February 12, 2015

More Brian Williams Bull?: Former Navy SEAL Doubts Brian Williams Flew With SEAL Team Six


Did Brian Williams tell even more fabricated war stories?

Bruce Golding at the New York Post reports on Brian Williams' SEAL Team Six stories.

A former Navy SEAL is publicly questioning claims by disgraced NBC anchor Brian Williams that he flew with members of the famed SEAL Team Six during the Iraq War — and that one of them sent him a souvenir from the daring commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

“My initial reaction is it sounds completely preposterous. There’s a healthy dislike towards embedded journalists within the SEAL community,” ex-SEAL sniper and best-selling author Brandon Webb told The Huffington Post.

“I can’t even remember an embed with a SEAL unit. And especially at SEAL Team Six? Those guys don’t take journalists with them on missions.”

Webb, who helped train the late “American Sniper” Chris Kyle, also doubted that Williams — currently suspended for lying about his experiences covering the Iraq War — was actually given a piece of a high-tech chopper used to infiltrate bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan in 2011.   

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://pagesix.com/2015/02/12/former-navy-seal-doubts-brian-williams-flew-with-seal-team-six/

Monday, February 25, 2013

Benghazi: The Definitive Report


Gary Anderson at the Washington Times reviews a new ebook on the Benghazi incident.

This is a “first report” e-book that was obviously rushed to publication. The definitive book on the Benghazi debacle still needs to be written, and this isn’t it. “Benghazi: The Definitive Report” has problems.

The authors are former special operations soldiers and work for an on-line publication called SOFREP.com. The book contains some startling revelations, and for that, it is worth reading. However, the first part of the book wanders from Libya to Mali to Syria, making it hard for the reader to see where it is going and why. This is too bad because the second half is a gripping account of the attack on the American consulate and the CIA compound in Benghazi that reads like a thriller, but its lack of footnotes renders its credibility suspect at best. The book makes some dynamite accusations, but the lack of citations makes it impossible to verify their credibility. 

The authors claim that the attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were probably premeditated and not a result of a reaction to a movie portraying Islam in a bad light. They also state that President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton learned of the situation too late to do anything about it.

You can read the rest of the review via the below link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/25/book-review-benghazi-the-definitive-report/