Author Jon Krakauer has quietly retreated from claims in a 2009 book that a former White House official, Jim Wilkinson, was the source for the Washington Postâ??s botched report about Jessica Lynch and her supposed battlefield heroics early in the Iraq War.
The unattributed assertions about Wilkinson â?? who was said to have â??duped reporters and editors at the Washington Postâ? â?? were included in Krakauerâ??s Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman.
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