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On Sunday night, CBS’ 60 Minutes corrected its recent file on Benghazi, which Chairman of CBS Information Jeff Fager known as “as big a mistake as there has been.”
After in the beginning defending the file, CBS conceded on Friday that it had been misled by its primary source, Dylan Davies, a British contractor who claimed to have been current on the American Embassy in Libya the night time of the assault, but who was once printed to have instructed a unique story to the FBI, one during which he was nowhere close to the compound.
“There are individuals on this planet who attempt to deceive others,” Fager told the New York Times. “We consider we’ve a in reality just right machine to protect in opposition to that. This man obtained via that.”
CBS took the phase off its webiste, reporter Lara Logan apologized on CBS Friday morning, and Simon and Schuster, its publishing division, recalled a ebook of Davies’ account, which was once printed on October 29.
Fager did not point out whether there could be repercussions for these concerned on the story, which 60 Minutes has been working on for a year.
The story has unfortunate echoes for CBS, which fired a lot of personnel participants, together with Dan Quite, over a 2004 report about George W. Bush’s tenure in the Nationwide Defend.
Watch the video below, via CBS:
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