I had been waiting for a former journalist and our bloglord, Joe to cover this but since he hasn’t I thought I would jump in.  A disclaimer up front, Iv’e always considered Lara Logan to be more of a propagandist than a journalist.  As it turns out her husband truly was a propagandist for the U.S. military in Iraq.

A few weeks ago on CBS’s 60 Minutes Lara Logan presented a story on the attack  on the the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the deaths of of our Ambassador to Libya and 3 other Americans.  The primary source for this story was an independent security contractor named Dylan Davies.  As it turned out Davies lied.

 Dylan Davies, a security officer who told “60 Minutes” about his heroism at the U.S. compound during the night of the Sept. 12, 2012, attack.

However, news outlets soon challenged that version of events by revealing that Davies previously told both his employer and the FBI that he didn’t reach the compound that night — accounts that directly conflicted both with what he said on “60 Minutes” and with his description of the night in a memoir published two days later by CBS subsidiary Simon & Schuster’s conservative book imprint, Threshold Editions. On Friday, Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News and executive producer of “60 Minutes,” also owned up to the mistake and addressed some questions in an interview with The Huffington Post, such as why the program kept defending a source who had admitted to lying once and no longer appeared credible.

Lara Logan and 60 Minutes had been working on this story for a year but they didn’t vet Davies story?  It took fact checkers 3 days to debunk it.  But even more disturbing is the incestuous relationship of CBS and Simon and Schuster.  Dylan Davies book was released a few days after the 60 Minutes story (It has now been recalled).  So was this intended to be a news story or an infomercial for a book?  Or perhaps Lara Logan was doing everything she could to push her agenda.  Neither option is pretty and doesn’t speak well for CBS or journalism.

CBS has removed that segment from their web site and Lara Logan issued a really lame 90 second apology- but I’m sorry – that’s not enough, heads need to roll.