US '60 Minutes' Star, Lara Logan, Given Leave Over Benghazi Report

Lara Logan was lead correspondent on 60 Minutes' false Benghazi Story.

US '60 Minutes' star given leave over Benghazi report (via AFP)

CBS News on Tuesday put a correspondent for flagship program "60 Minutes" on leave over flaws in a critical report about last year's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Lara Logan, a South African, also abruptly canceled her scheduled appearance…

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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.

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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60 Minutes Reporter Who Got Burned Airing a Right-Wing Narrative About the Benghazi Embassy Assault - Was Staunch Advocate for a Revenge Attack on Libya

Davies book was pulled
from the market.

Author Dylan Davies was touted by 60 Minutes as a reliable 'witness' to the Benghazi embassy attack. The CBS news program was using Davies to promote the right-wing narrative that the Obama Administration was 'hiding something' about the embassy attack, but Davies turned out to be lying concerning his whereabouts the day of the attack. 

Lara Logan (left) and Davies. CBS provided Davies a global
platform for his lies.

Mr. Davies was on 60 Minutes to promote his new book about the embassy attack. The book was published by Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS' parent company Viacom.

Lara Logan, a 60 Minutes correspondent and one of the key reporters on the 60 Minutes Benghazi story, was a staunch advocate for a revenge attack on Libya and her opinions about 'getting back at Libyans' for the Benghazi embassy attack appears to have clouded her judgement on the story. Davies Book is no longer for sale: did he lie merely to sell books? Was 60 Minutes attempting to attract right-wing viewers by airing a right-wing narrative of the Benghazi embassy assault?

Lara Logan expresses her feelings for revenge during
 a speech before the Better Government Association 
in October 2012.

Video clip courtesy of DemocracyNow!: You can watch or download the full segment here.