Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News and a correspondent for the network's "60 Minutes," issued an apology on Friday morning that she and the news program made a "mistake" in their reporting for utilizing a spurious source in a report on the Benghazi attacks, The Huffington Post reported.
Logan said the program will issue a correction "about the reliability of one of her key sources, security contractor Dylan Davies, on its next program," news reports said.
"We were wrong to put him on the air. We will apologize to our viewers and we will correct the record on our broadcast on Sunday night," she said on CBS' 'This Morning' on Friday.
It was revealed Thursday that Davies made a fabricated account of his actions during the 2012 attacks. He previously told the FBI that he did not go the site described.
"This was the second occasion where Davies had been recorded as saying that he wasn't at the scene of the crime. He had already admitted to doing so once, but CBS and Logan had firmly backed him, saying that he had lied to his employer to protect himself," The Huffington Post reported.
"The most important thing to every person at '60 Minutes' is the truth, and today the truth is that we made a mistake," Logan added.
The Huffington Post reported on Monday that Davies admitted that he lied to a superior about his whereabouts of September 11, 2012.
Mchael Calderon, The Huffington Post reporter who raised questions about the story, asked Monday: "Did the program know Davies once told a superior that he didn't reach the compound? If not, will the network revisit the story? And if so, how did "60 Minutes" vet its eyewitness to be sure he's now providing an accurate version of events?"
