8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (2)
#19018393 at 2023-06-16 21:30:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23352: Hallowed Edition
>>19018382
>>19018372
>>19018362
>>19018021
>>19018236
>>19018249
[CONTINUED. . . ]
Within days of the broadcast, his story began to unravel. The Washington Post reported that Davies had told his employer he wasn't at the compound that night-something 60 Minutes had known but did not mention, accepting Davies's explanation that he had lied to his employer. A week later, The New York Times revealed that Davies had also told the FBI that he wasn't at the compound. Logan and McClellan knew that Davies had been interviewed by the FBI; they had not checked what he actually said. And when, after the Times report, they tried to reach Davies to demand answers, they couldn't find him-The Daily Beast later reported that he had emailed his publisher saying that because of a threat against his family, he was going dark.
I was recently able to reach Davies via email. He claimed without evidence that his son's life had been threatened by "the US state department (Clinton)" after the 60 Minutes report. (A spokesperson for Hillary Clinton denied the allegation and noted that Clinton had stepped down as secretary of state several months before the Benghazi report aired.) When I pressed him on whether he had told the FBI and 60 Minutes different versions of his story, he replied that he didn't "want anything to do with Benghazi" and asked what was wrong with me.
Media Matters, the liberal watchdog group founded by the Clinton ally David Brock, seized on the controversy immediately, publishing no fewer than 36 stories highlighting problems in Logan's reporting. Other outlets would point to a speech Logan had given a year earlier, in which she accused the Obama administration of perpetuating a "major lie" about the ongoing threat of al-Qaeda, as evidence of political bias.
On November 8, 2013, for the first time in her career, Logan went on air to announce the retraction of a story. "We were wrong," she said. Simon & Schuster withdrew The Embassy House from sale later that day. For CBS, and Fager in particular, it was a colossal embarrassment-the program's "worst mistake on my 10-year watch," he wrote in a 2017 book. Logan would later say that a nondisclosure agreement she and McClellan had signed with the publisher had prevented them from checking Davies's story with the FBI. It was an odd line of defense-Logan arguing that she had given up the right to verify key points. An internal CBS review concluded that problems with Davies's account were "knowable before the piece aired." Logan and McClellan agreed to take indefinite leaves of absence. (CBS News declined to comment on the Benghazi report and its aftermath.)
Sitting in her home in Cleveland Park during the leave of absence, Logan took calls from colleagues and tried to make sense of things. For the first time in her career, she was losing control of the narrative.
Logan soon learned that Joe Hagan, a writer at New York magazine, was working on a profile of her. Hagan's article, titled "Benghazi and the Bombshell," was published in May 2014. Hagan attributed the Benghazi mistake to a "proverbial perfect storm" of factors, including Logan's reputed personal sympathies with the Republican line on the attack, and the "outsize power" she enjoyed at 60 Minutes thanks to Fager.
[CONTINUED. . . ]
#7574358 at 2019-12-20 21:46:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research #9689: Space Command #Christmas Edition
Reporter Lara Logan Files $25M Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Media and Writer Joe Hagan Over New York Magazine Hit Piece
Former "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan has filed a massive $25 million lawsuit against New York Media and writer Joe Hagan over a 2014 hit piece that ran in New York Magazine titled "Benghazi and the Bombshell."
Hagan's article was about Logan's 60 Minutes report on the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
"The headline reference to 'Bombshell' was both sexist, insulting and defamatory at the same time," Logan's lawsuit states, according to a report from The Hill.
Though Logan's report was later retracted, she maintains that Hagan's attack was misleading. The reason for the retraction was an interview with British security contractor Dylan Davies, who has provided a misleading account of the incident in multiple venues. His book, which was released by Simon & Schuster was also recalled.
Logan apologized for the interview with Davies, which she referred to as a "mistake", but maintains the essential parts of her report were accurate and true.
"The word was intended to portray Logan as a dangerous and untouchable and incendiary reporter," the lawsuit asserts.
In one example of how Hagan misrepresented Logan, he referred to her being gang raped in Egypt as being "groped."
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/reporter-lara-logan-files-25m-defamation-lawsuit-against-new-york-media-and-writer-Joe-Hagan-over-new-york-magazine-hit-piece/