An NBC News internal investigation into Brian Williams has examined a half-dozen instances in which the news anchor is thought to have fabricated or embellished his accounts, two people with knowledge of the probe said.
The investigation includes at least one episode that was previously unreported, they said, involving statements by Williams about events in Tahrir Square in Cairo during the Arab Spring.
The investigation was commissioned this year after Williams apologized for embellishing an account of a helicopter episode in Iraq in 2003. He was suspended for six months from his anchor position on the NBC Nightly News.
The two people with knowledge of the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the episodes under review included the incident in Iraq in 2003; statements Williams made about a missile attack while he was in a helicopter over Israel in 2006; and the circumstances under which he received a fragment of a helicopter that crashed during the mission to kill Osama bin Laden in 2011.
It is not clear precisely which parts of Williams' reporting from Tahrir Square have been scrutinized.
NBC News and Williams' lawyer declined to comment.
A Section on 04/25/2015