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Was 60 Minutes' Fraudulent Benghazi Story A CBS "Hit" On President Obama?: Husband of Correspondent A Former Propagandist for a PR Firm - Questions On If He 'Assisted' on Benghazi Story

Newsweek contributing editor Jeff Stein is raising questions about whether 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan's husband -- a former employee of a firm that planted "pro-U.S. stories in the Iraqi media in 2005" -- was involved in the show's now-retracted Benghazi report.

Lara Logan: lead correspondent on 60 Minutes' discredited Benghazi Story.
Lara Logan: lead correspondent on 60 Minutes' discredited Benghazi Story.

Stein explains that Burkett is "a former Army sergeant and onetime employee of a private intelligence outfit hired by the Pentagon to plant pro-U.S. stories in the Iraqi media in 2005." The Lincoln Group, Burkett's former employer, apparently specialized in producing videos and phony news clips that they would then feed to media outlets, "making them appear as originating from legitimate news organizations."

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