An internal investigation into whether NBC News Brian Williams fabricated facts about his coverage of the Iraq war has expanded into a half-dozen other stories the fallen anchor reported, according to the New York Times.
Williams was put on six months’ suspension following a story first reported by the independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes, which broke that Williams was not on a helicopter in Iraq in 2003 that came under fire. Williams had claimed for years that he was when he was actually on another chopper a mile away.
The additional work under scrutiny, the Times said, includes stories of another helicopter ride in 2006 over Israel where Williams said he came under missile attack, events he reported about in the Tahrir Square in Egypt in 2011, and the events surrounding how Williams got a piece of a crashed U.S. helicopter that was involved in the attack that killed Osama bin Laden.
