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…

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.

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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Is BP 'trolling' its Facebook Critics?: Critics Using BP America's Facebook Page Allege They Have Been Harassed

Has BP hired internet "trolls" to threaten critics of its handling of the 2010 oil disaster? 

 

Trolls at The Hobbit World Premiere in Wellington, NZ.
(Photo: Tristan Schmurr)

Dahr Jamail | 20 Nov 2013 18:20

BP has been accused of hiring internet "trolls" to purposefully attack, harass, and sometimes threaten people who have been critical of how the oil giant has handled its disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil firm hired the international PR company Ogilvy & Mather to run the BP America Facebook page during the oil disaster, which released at least 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf in what is to date the single largest environmental disaster in US history.

The page was meant to encourage interaction with BP, but when people posted comments that were critical of how BP was handling the crisis, they were often attacked, bullied, and sometimes directly threatened.

"Marie" was deeply concerned by the oil spill, and began posting comments on the BP America Facebook page. Today, she asks that she remain anonymous out of what she described to Al Jazeera as "fear for my personal safety should the BP trolls find out that I am the whistleblower in this case".

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