The Return Of Ollie

The problem in Afghanistan is that we have papered over troop shortages with bombing runs for five years, and often the bombs miss their mark and inflame local populations. The military obliterated a village a couple weeks ago but have refused to hold themselves accountable for it. They're finally starting to reverse their opinion and re-open the investigation in the light of "emerging evidence," (which is a video of the bombed village) but you'll never guess who they originally counted on for their side of the story:

Before the leak to the media of this video the Pentagon repeatedly “strongly denied” the mass slaughter of civilians and backed up its claims with the eyewitness report of “an embedded independent journalist." On Sunday, the Times of London identified that “journalist:”

The US military said that its findings were corroborated by an independent journalist embedded with the US force. He was named as the Fox News correspondent Oliver North, who came to prominence in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, when he was an army colonel.

Wow.

Oh Ollie, is there any American military scandal you're NOT involved in?