Since 2011, Brian Williams has claimed that he’s been embedded with SEAL Team 6 multiple times and that one of them gave him a piece of the downed chopper from the famous Osama Bin Laden raid.
On May 2, 2011, Williams told Letterman, “We have some idea which of our special operations teams carried this out. It happens to be a team I flew into Baghdad with, on the condition that I would never speak of what I saw on the aircraft, what aircraft we were on, what we were carrying, or who we were after.”
In January 2013, Williams told Letterman, “About six weeks after the Bin Laden raid, I got a white envelope and in it was a thank-you note, unsigned,” Williams told Letterman in January 2013. “And in it was a piece of the fuselage of the blown-up Black Hawk in that courtyard. Sent to me by one of my friends.”
SEAL Brandon Webb is calling this story “completely preposterous.” HotAir’s Ed Morrissey adds that it’s “not just unlikely, it’s almost certainly untrue as told”:
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I never considered journalists present, past or future to be infallible beacons of truth.
To be an independent journalist one must work for oneself. If you have a boss you will never be truly independent.
When the truth affects the bottom-line, ones' independence becomes expendable.
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