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| Lara Logan |
CBS' 60 Minutes gave a rare apology last night (November
10th) for its report two weeks ago on the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last year.
Journalist Lara Logan, who led the original story, said that
Dylan Davies, one of their main sources, had misled them when he gave an heroic
account of rushing to the compound on the night of the attack and that he
shouldn't have been included in the report.
Some media critics have called for CBS to begin an
independent investigation into what went wrong, similar to what they did after
a discredited report in 2004 on President George W. Bush's National Guard
service.
CBS also apologized on Friday and pulled the report from its
website.
Questions had immediately been raised about Davies' story,
but CBS only issued their retraction after confirming a New York Times report
that the British military contractor gave a different account to the FBI in
which he said he never reached the compound.
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