Newsweek: Was Lara Logan's Husband Involved In 60 Minutes' Botched Benghazi Story?

[deminks]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/23/newsweek-was-lara-logans-husband-involved-in-60/197037

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Citing the fact that "nobody at 60 Minutes has been fired or even publicly disciplined for its odd, inflammatory and dead-wrong" Benghazi report, Newsweek's Jeff Stein points to Logan's husband, Joseph Burkett, as "the most interesting figure in this mystery."

Stein explains that Burkett is "a former Army sergeant and onetime employee of a private intelligence outfit hired by the Pentagon to plant pro-U.S. stories in the Iraqi media in 2005." The Lincoln Group, Burkett's former employer, apparently specialized in producing videos and phony news clips that they would then feed to media outlets, "making them appear as originating from legitimate news organizations." From Newsweek:

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A 2006 New York Times article highlighted the vast scope of the multimillion-dollar "aggressive propaganda campaign" carried out by the Lincoln Group in Iraq, which reportedly included "paying Iraqi editors to run stories":

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Highlighting one of the flaws McClatchy identified in the CBS report -- the unsourced claim "pinning responsibility for the attack solely on al Qaeda" -- Stein ponders where such a claim could have come from, and points to Logan's husband as a possible source:

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Holy sh*t. The plot thickens.

[KoKo]

1. Glad to see more coming out about this.

It seemed to die after the initial outrage yet there still seemed to be some "loose threads" that needed pulling.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. FIRE. HER.

[Cha]

21. And, whoever else was involved in pushing that GOPropaganda pos on the American People..

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/11/13/rise-and-shine-667/

[malaise]

3. Is the pope

catholic????

[truebluegreen]

9. Seems to be some doubt about that...

[malaise]

18. Ha

[arely staircase]

4. he is a "work-at-home Congressional liaison." nt

[NewJeffCT]

5. Rather was fired for sloppy journalism

This is looking a few levels more severe than that - at best

[arthritisR_US]

6. I agree and yet what Rather reported was the truth and

not a propaganda psy ops hit job

[NewJeffCT]

7. Not just that

Rather was made into a national pariah by the "mainstream" media and has been in "alternate" media since. If Logan gets fired, she'll probably just land a cushy job at Fox News.

[truebluegreen]

10. Well, she is blonde...

(apologies to all the smart blondies out there, who are legion and who don't work for Fux Snews)

[arthritisR_US]

12. You are both spot on! nt

[JHB]

22. Logan didn't have people with a decades-long vendetta against her...

...whereas Rather has been conservatives' poster boy for "Liberal Media Bias" since the 60s.

They hated Rather's reports from Vietnam for undercutting support for the war, they thought he was overly-aggressive towards Nixon while letting liberal Democrats off light. In the 1980s Jesse Helms floated a plan to conservatives to buy shares in (then-independent) CBS -- "the most anti-Reagan of the networks" -- and the big pitch line was "Become Dan Rather's boss".

They wanted his head on a pike. He was past his prime, and he was an impediment to any attempt to siphon off Fox viewers. That made him an easy sacrifice once there was something big enough to provide an excuse.

[arthritisR_US]

26. Interesting, I didn't know that thanks!

[Enthusiast]

31. +1 a whole bunch.......nt

[arely staircase]

8. got to watch to the end for the connection

[JDPriestly]

14. Great!

[arely staircase]

16. I want to know who did Logan in that skit

it was a dead on imitation and she even looked just like her.

[marle35]

25. Kate McKinnon -nt-

[arely staircase]

28. then well played Ms. McKinnon

spot on

[eggplant]

20. Hysterical! n/t

[MH1]

24. That's great!

[JDPriestly]

11. Lara Logan and 60 Minutes are totally discredited. Shame on CBS for continuing Logan's

employment when it fired Dan Rather for less.

[dchill]

13. K & R.

[randome]

15. Now THIS is a conspiracy worth unraveling.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[classof56]

17. Or, as we used to say back in my hippie days--the plot sickens.

Been a long time gone, but I'm still waiting for peace and justice. Stories like this make me seriously doubt it will ever find its way here.

[Major Nikon]

19. So her husband is a propagandist

Certainly can't hurt her prospects at Faux.

[Dawson Leery]

23. Her entire history must be placed under close scrutiny.

[Owl]

27. The real issue is the pentagon hiring her husband to makeup stories.

Let's not lose sight of that.

[Doctor_J]

29. Stop calling it botched

it was deliberate and malicious.

[Enthusiast]

32. +1 a whole bunch.......nt

[countryjake]

30. Back to the first page with this! K&R!

Glad to see that some are unwilling to allow CBS and 60 Minutes let this deliberate propaganda fade away with no repercussions.

[Enthusiast]

33. This should have HUNDREDS of recommendations. Come on people.