CBS' Lara Logan, producer on leave after discredited Benghazi report
ara Logan, the CBS correspondent at the center of a discredited
October 27 report about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in
Benghazi, Libya, is taking a leave of absence from work, the network
said Tuesday.
Logan's longtime
producer, Max McClellan, is also taking time off. CBS suggested that the
leaves of absence were punitive measures for the shortcomings in the
Benghazi report, which has stung the reputations of both Logan and the
program that televised her report, "60 Minutes."
With the staff
announcements on Tuesday and the release of an internal review, CBS
tried to demonstrate that it has figured out what went wrong with its
Benghazi report and taken steps to stop similar mistakes in the future.
"The '60 Minutes' journalistic review is concluded, and we are
implementing ongoing changes based on its results," a CBS News
spokeswoman said Tuesday.
But the network declined
to comment further on what changes were being implemented or on when
Logan might return to work. Logan has not talked publicly about the
Benghazi report since she apologized for it on November 10, and it looks
unlikely that she will talk anytime soon; although she had been
scheduled to host a high-profile fund-raising dinner for the Committee
to Protect Journalists on Tuesday night, the committee says her
colleague Scott Pelley, the anchor of the "CBS Evening News," is going
to fill in for her.
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