I talked to my nephew, a Marine Scout Sniper, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He saw plenty of action and can recount it in excruciatingly accurate detail 5 to 7 years later.
The chances that Brian WIlliams, who dares to use the phrase “fog” of war!, would mistake being in a helicopter that received RPG and AK47 fire even after 12 years is ZERO.
There is NO CHANCE he didn’t know what he was saying was a lie. He is beneath contempt.
My how far journalism has fallen. In my earlier days as a newspaper reporter, a reporter found to have made an error in fact—let alone having floated an entirely fabricated story— would have been fired on the spot.