Breaking: Lara Logan Taking Leave Of Absence From '60 Minutes' After Debunked Benghazi Report

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76. Key paragraph and why Logan should have been fired as soon as this broke and still should be fired.

--In October of 2012, one month before starting work on the Benghazi story, Logan made a speech in which she took a strong public position arguing that the US Government was misrepresenting the threat from Al Qaeda, and urging actions that the US should take in response to the Benghazi attack. From a CBS News Standards perspective, there is a conflict in taking a public position on the government’s handling of Benghazi and Al Qaeda, while continuing to report on the story.

Logan had a clear conflict of interest and yet she reported this story as a supposedly neutral reporter. She was anything but and it obviously influenced how she reported the story and why she relied on an uncorroborated and self serving source in Davies - his account fed into her bias. Others found this immediately. Why did it take CBS so long to find it or appreciate its significance? A reporter who will do this cannot be trusted. Note that Logan still has not been fired - she is on a loa. Not the same thing at all.