"60 Minutes" will issue a major correction on its recent bombshell report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.
CBS issued a tersely written statement Thursday night that said the network was looking into whether it was misled by Morgan Jones (a pseudonym), the star source in the recent segment.
The full statement:
60 Minutes has learned of new information that undercuts the account told to us by Morgan Jones of his actions on the night of the attack on the Benghazi compound.
We are currently looking into this serious matter to determine if he misled us, and if so, we will make a correction.
CBS then pulled the original report from its website. On Friday morning, correspondent Lara Logan, who reported the piece, apologized on air on "CBS This Morning."
"The most important thing to every person at '60 Minutes' is the truth, and today the truth is we made a mistake," Logan said. She said that "60 Minutes" will issue a correction this Sunday.
The move follows more than a week of criticism that had piled up on the network amid an investigation into Dylan Davies' (the source's real name) previous claims.
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