Lara Logan and 60 Minutes Producer Suspended Over Discredited Benghazi Story

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Not since "Rathergate" has 60 Minutes had so much egg on their face (and to be fair, that was 60 Minutes II). In that case, the conservative blogosphere nabbed one of their first scalps. It pretty much put the arch tea-bagger site FreeRepublic.com on the map. This time, the shoe is kind of on the other foot. 60 Minutes was trying to play into a right-wing conspiracy theory, and got suckered by a guy who sold them a story that fit the narrative. Interestingly, the FReeper types still believe the discredited story, in kind of a reverse of the "story is true, but the evidence was fake" theme they made fun of with the Bush National Guard documents of Rathergate. I hope Dan Rather got a chuckle out of this one, at least.

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Lara Logan and ’60 Minutes’ producer put on leave after discredited Benghazi report

CBS News confirmed on Monday that correspondent Lara Logan and producer Max McClellan had been effectively suspended from 60 Minutes after a discredited report on Benghazi that the network was later forced to retract. . .

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CBS Revisiting 60 Minutes Benghazi Story Over Contradictions

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60 Minutes aired a piece on Benghazi recently that irked some on the left for the way it played into right-wing talking points. Almost immediately, the story started to unravel a bit, but it's come apart enough now that CBS is acknowledging the problems with it. This, I'm sure, is making Right Wing World a bit unhappy.

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’60 Minutes’ will review Benghazi story after more questions surface about ‘witness’

In a short statement released Thursday night, CBS news magazine 60 Minutes promised to revisit its story on an alleged witness to attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi following another report calling his account into question. The report has also been removed from CBS News’ website. “60 Minutes has learned of new information that undercuts the account told to us by Morgan Jones of his actions on the night of the attack on the Benghazi compound,” the statement read. “We are currently looking into this serious matter to determine if he misled us, and if so, we will make a correction. . .”

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