Brian Williams might have made up other stories about Iraq and Berlin Wall coverage

Brian Williams might not be anchoring NBC Nightly News ever again, but that hasn’t stopped Internet sleuths from digging into the other wild stories he would frequently tell on late night talk show appearances and in speeches.

On Tuesday, Williams was suspended for six months without pay specifically for his fabricated Iraq War story about being in a helicopter that was struck by an RPG in 2003.

Now, questions are being raised about another Iraq War story he would frequently tell. After Osama Bin Laden was killed by the elite Navy SEAL Team 6 group in 2011, Williams began telling a story about how he was with the team in 2003.

The Huffington Post found that Williams told David Letterman the day after Bin Laden was killed that he had flown into Baghdad with SEAL Team 6 in April 2003. While Williams definitely did fly to Baghdad that month, he never mentioned SEAL Team 6 in his first reports from Iraq.

When Williams appeared on Letterman again in May 2012, Williams said he flew into Baghdad with SEAL Team 6 three days after the invasion. (However, three days after the U.S. invasion would have been March 22, 2003, but Williams didn’t report from Baghdad for the first time until April 9, 2003.)

While it is possible that Williams just wasn’t allowed to talk about being with SEAL Team 6 until eight years after he flew with them, CNN analyst Peter Bergen told Anderson Cooper that it wouldn’t have been possible. A Special Operations Command official also told CNN that they do not let journalists be embedded with special teams like SEAL Team 6.

Bergen also said that a SEAL officer told him that another part of Williams’ stories - that he received memorabilia from the SEALs he flew with - “doesn’t pass any sniff test.”

Williams’ lying might also extend beyond the talk show appearances. CBSLA.com reports that in 2008, Williams told a forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that he was at the Berlin Wall the night it came down in 1989. However, he didn’t arrive until the next day, since NBC News’ Tom Brokaw was the only American journalist at the wall the day it was being torn down.

The Iraq War lie that brought down Williams was also repeated several times before he mentioned it again earlier this month. His Hurricane Katrina stories have also been called into question.

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