Sharyl Attkisson
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And that was the pattern and the story, for me at least, of Scott Pelley at the anchor desk.
No, Boeing was one of it that came later.
Um, the first one was a story at expose I did on the travel group called people to people that as it turns out was luring high school students into, it was nothing more than a travel agency out of the auspices of a nonprofit using the Dwight Eisenhower name and his daughter or granddaughters, you know, reputation.
to convince children in high school that they had been chosen to be ambassadors on these amazing global trips when, in fact, they were just using lists.
These kids weren't honored or nominated by their teachers, as they claimed, and they were getting kids to go on these trips, and the kids were getting injured.
Some of them were getting killed.
It was all a big bait.
I never understood.
One of my producers, listen, I even found a member of Congress had sent letters out under, or there were names out under her name, advocating for this group, telling students you should go.
And I learned and exposed that they had forged her name.
And I even got her on camera saying so, which she didn't originally want to do.
It was a great story.
Oh, my gosh.
It was never explained to me.
We call it, my producer and I at the time, the death by a thousand cuts.
He would want to change this or want to change that.
Well, let's not mention the death.
Let's not do this.
Rewrite it again.
And you started to understand.