Operation Genoa
The operation was conducted in Pakistan in 2009. The mission was to raid a village in order to rescue two captured U.S. soldiers who were about to be sold to al-Qaeda and publicly beheaded for propaganda purposes. In August 2011, Jerry Dantana eagerly focusing his journalistic efforts on drone strikes ordered by the Obama administration received a lot of resistance from the News Night team. After a roundtable discussion during News Night, he spoke with one of the panelists, U.S. Air Force Captain Cyrus West, who said he had the type of story that "makes careers and ends presidencies." About a year later, News Night aired a special report regarding Operation: Genoa on a Sunday. President of the News Division Charlie Skinner stated before Rebecca Halliday that "by 10:05... [they] knew none of it was true." Near the end of "Red Team III", Will informs Rebecca that Genoa was in fact a real and successful operation, but there hadn't been any sarin involved as the witnesses had claimed. Sweeney had been right about the unit using protective gear against chemicals, but it was because they feared the insurgents were sitting on chemical weapons.