enhanced_deficit
11-26-2013, 08:59 PM
Or just plain in-fighting since Benghazi and Iran deal?
26 November 2013 Last updated at 15:52 ET
CBS suspends Lara Logan and producer for Benghazi report http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71364000/jpg/_71364421_laralogan.jpg Lara Logan has apologised for airing a 60 Minutes report which later turned out to contain false information
CBS has suspended star reporter Lara Logan and a producer for an erroneous 60 Minutes report about the attack on a US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
Logan and producer Max McClellan ran an interview with a security contractor who was later discredited by the FBI. Ms Logan later called it a "mistake".
CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager said: "This deception got through and it shouldn't have."
The network's internal review of the incident censured the report.
Its inquiry found the 60 Minutes team should have done a more thorough job vetting the information provided by security contractor Dylan Davies.
'We were wrong' He initially reported that he had witnessed the 11 September 2012 attack, fought off an assailant, and later saw the body of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
But other news outlets later revealed that Mr Davies had told FBI investigators and his employers he was not at the Benghazi compound on the night of the attack.
The CBS News internal review also determined Ms Logan should not have done the story at all after making a speech in Chicago claiming it was untrue that the US military had suppressed al-Qaeda.
Logan, who faces a forced leave of absence of undetermined length, apologised for the incident soon after the report's initial 27 October airing.
"The most important thing to every person at 60 Minutes is the truth, and today the truth is we made a mistake," Logan told a CBS morning news programme on 8 November.
'Eyewitness account' http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67658000/jpg/_67658225_151988851-2.jpg US ambassador J Christopher Stevens was killed in Benghazi
Publication of a book written by Mr Davies about the 2012 attack was also halted the same day.
Threshold Editions suspended publication of The Embassy House: The Explosive Eyewitness Account of the Libyan Embassy Siege by the Soldier Who Was There.
The book, written under the pseudonym Sgt Morgan Jones, was released on 29 October.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25114145
26 November 2013 Last updated at 15:52 ET
CBS suspends Lara Logan and producer for Benghazi report http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71364000/jpg/_71364421_laralogan.jpg Lara Logan has apologised for airing a 60 Minutes report which later turned out to contain false information
CBS has suspended star reporter Lara Logan and a producer for an erroneous 60 Minutes report about the attack on a US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
Logan and producer Max McClellan ran an interview with a security contractor who was later discredited by the FBI. Ms Logan later called it a "mistake".
CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager said: "This deception got through and it shouldn't have."
The network's internal review of the incident censured the report.
Its inquiry found the 60 Minutes team should have done a more thorough job vetting the information provided by security contractor Dylan Davies.
'We were wrong' He initially reported that he had witnessed the 11 September 2012 attack, fought off an assailant, and later saw the body of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
But other news outlets later revealed that Mr Davies had told FBI investigators and his employers he was not at the Benghazi compound on the night of the attack.
The CBS News internal review also determined Ms Logan should not have done the story at all after making a speech in Chicago claiming it was untrue that the US military had suppressed al-Qaeda.
Logan, who faces a forced leave of absence of undetermined length, apologised for the incident soon after the report's initial 27 October airing.
"The most important thing to every person at 60 Minutes is the truth, and today the truth is we made a mistake," Logan told a CBS morning news programme on 8 November.
'Eyewitness account' http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67658000/jpg/_67658225_151988851-2.jpg US ambassador J Christopher Stevens was killed in Benghazi
Publication of a book written by Mr Davies about the 2012 attack was also halted the same day.
Threshold Editions suspended publication of The Embassy House: The Explosive Eyewitness Account of the Libyan Embassy Siege by the Soldier Who Was There.
The book, written under the pseudonym Sgt Morgan Jones, was released on 29 October.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25114145