Lara Logan to take leave of absence from ‘60 Minutes’

 

The Washington Post reports that a CBS network review of the show’s segment on Benghazi found numerous flaws in the reporting, noting:

 

The “60 Minutes” story began to unravel after The Washington Post reported on Oct. 31 about the existence of an “incident report” that Davies had written for Blue Mountain in which Davies acknowledged that he spent most of the night at his beachside villa. It fell apart altogether when the New York Times revealed Nov. 7 that Davis had admitted as much to the FBI in an interview.

After defending the story for nearly two weeks, CBS and Logan retracted it and apologized on Nov. 8.

In his memo, Fager wrote, “There is a lot to learn from this mistake for the entire organization. We have rebuilt CBS News in a way that has dramatically improved our reporting abilities. Ironically, ‘60 Minutes,’ which has been a model for those changes, fell short by broadcasting a now discredited account of an important story, and did not take full advantage of the reporting abilities of CBS News that might have prevented it from happening.”