Does the 60 Minutes retraction hurt the GOP's case on Benghazi?

Republicans were eager to push the CBS News report as evidence of the White House's incompetence

Lara Logan
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"I see criticism from the Left where they go, 'You guys are covering a phony scandal,'" Steve Doocy, co-host of Fox & Friends, said two weeks ago. "60 Minutes doesn't cover phony scandals."

It turns out that isn't entirely true. Yesterday, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan apologized on 60 Minutes for a story the show aired featuring Dylan Davies, a security contractor who said he was at the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, the night it was attacked.

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Keith Wagstaff is a staff writer at TheWeek.com covering politics and current events. He has previously written for such publications as TIME, Details, VICE, and the Village Voice.