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Q: What's the story with Lara Logan? I know "60 Minutes" suspended her for her part in a bogus story they aired, but that was months ago, and they don't even mention her anymore. Is she off the show for good? Will she resurface somewhere else?

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

It seems as if the only people who know about Lara Logan's future at "60 Minutes" are the show's producers, and they're not saying much.

Logan was suspended, along with her segment producer, in November due to problems with her Oct. 27 report on the American embassy attack in Benghazi, Libya. It was deemed in an internal memo to have been "deficient in several respects," most notably in the respect that one of her key sources later admitted to having lied on camera.

By mid-December, less than a month after her suspension, popular political news site Politico.com reported that she and her producer would return to the program as early as January. The site based this on anonymous "network sources."

Of course, it's four months later now and she still hasn't returned.

Rumors circled in March that she was being fired completely, after "60 Minutes" announced that veteran CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker was being added to the team.

However, that was debunked, quite tersely, in an email from CBS executive Kevin Tedesco to the Poynter journalism institute.

"Lara is still on a leave of absence and Bill Whitaker's appointment has nothing to do with her."

Logan's byline hasn't appeared anywhere else since.

Nor, by most reports, has she. She has canceled two speaking events that were to have taken place in recent weeks: One scheduled for April 8 in Greensboro, N.C., and one scheduled back in February in Sarasota, Fla.

 

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