Lara Logan, producer on leave after CBS finds ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi story deficient

By Nancy A. Youssef

McClatchy Foreign StaffNovember 26, 2013

BENGHAZI, Libya — Jeff Fager, the executive producer of the venerated news program “60 Minutes,” announced Tuesday that he had asked reporter Lara Logan and producer Max McClellan to take a leave of absence after numerous questions surfaced about the veracity of an Oct. 27 report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

The request that the two leave their jobs was the culmination of an internal “journalistic review,” first reported by McClatchy, which found the segment “deficient.”