Brian Williams Seal Team 6 - Estranged NBC News Nightly veteran journalist Brian Williams is under fire again, this time for claiming to have traveled to Iraq with U.S. Navy Seal Team 6, in 2003.
Williams said he was friends with members of the elite Navy Seal Team 6, who engaged in the daring mission to kill Osama Bin Laden.
On May 3, 2011, two days after the Seals had successfully killed Bin Laden in Pakistan, Williams said on his show; "Now, people might be hearing about SEAL Team 6. I happened to have the great honor of flying into Baghdad with them at the start of the war."
A Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw questioned the authenticity of the story .
"We do not embed journalists with that unit or any other unit that conducts counter-terrorism missions. Bottom line--no."
55-year-old Williams also claimed on the David Letterman show that his friends from the Navy Seal Team 6 sent him a knife and a piece of the helicopter used in the 2011 raid as a gift.
"About six weeks after the Bin-Laden raid, I got a white envelope and in it was a thank-you note, unsigned. And in it a piece of the fuselage of the blown-up Black Hawk in that courtyard. Sent to me by one of my friends," Williams said in January 2013 on the Late Show With David Letterman.
However McGraw has said that William's claims are questionable because the helicopter was blown up after the Seals left the compound. So where did the piece of the plane come from?.
"We don't have any idea what someone could have sent Mr. Williams and what kind of claim that person may have made," he said. "But, while the details of the raid remain classified, I can say the aircraft was not blown up until after US forces had left the compound."
Things are going from bad to worse for Williams, who was suspended two days ago for six months without pay after inaccuracies surfaced in his story about being in a helicopter that got hit by rocket fire in Iraq.
NBC is currently conducting an investigation to check the facts of his stories and this Navy Seal Team 6 story seem to be one of many, which several holes have been found.
