According to Wikipedia, the “sovereign citizen movement” is a loose network of American litigants, commentators and financial scheme promoter who call themselves “sovereign citizens” and believe that they are answerable only to English common law and are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal, state or municipal levels. Tonight they were the focus of an 60 Minutes exposé hosted by Byron Pitts.

Since the announcement that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was killed, there has been a general assumption that the raid would have been captured on video. Now, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin is reporting that, indeed, all of the 25 Navy SEALs who participated in the raid were equipped with helmet cameras that filmed the whole thing. Based partially on reporting from those tapes, CBS created an animated simulation of parts of the raid.

Mediaite has learned that Rick Kaplan, executive producer of the CBS Evening News, is leaving his post. Kaplan announced his departure in a meeting with staffers of the Katie Couric broadcast. “You have all made my life for the past almost five years fabulous,” Kaplan said, according to people close to Kaplan.

In an interview with Katie Couric published in Glamour, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow says some may see her as the “face of the network” in the aftermath of Keith Olbermann‘s departure, but she has no real idea what that means. “I still think of myself as the new kid, even though I’ve been on the air for two and a half years. But my job is the same as it ever was, which is to make 9:00 P.M. as good as I can.”

The day after President Obama announced the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden news broke that the lifeless body of the al Qaeda leader was buried at sea in a manner that was consistent with Islamic tradition. Yesterday, the president sat down with 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft for an exclusive and one time discussion of the bin Laden affair, and a new segment has been released by CBS in which Obama discusses the burial at sea.

CBS News is reporting that during a sit down interview for 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama revealed to Steve Kroft his decision to not release photos of a dead Osama bin Laden. Republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers reportedly said “the risk of release outweigh the benefits” before adding that there was concern over how the image would be viewed as a “trophy” and inflame public opinion in the Middle East.

CBS News has announced President Obama will give his “first and only” interview about the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden to Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes. Kroft has interviewed Mr. Obama ten times in the past, most recently last November.

CBS says the interview will be conducted tomorrow at the White House, and aired this Sunday, one week after the dramatic raid that sent U.S. forces into Pakistan and into a dramatic firefight inside bin Laden’s compound, where the al Qaeda leader was shot twice and killed:

In a move you’d be forgiven for thinking had already been made, CBS officially named 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley the new anchor of the CBS Evening News, replacing Katie Couric. “Scott has it all. He has the experience, the credibility and he is among the very best reporters ever to work at CBS News,” said CBS News chairman Jeff Fager. “In more than two decades at CBS News, he has distinguished himself at every level, right up to his current role at ’60 Minutes,’ where his work has been incomparable. We like to think of CBS News as the ‘reporter’s network’ and I can’t think of anybody in this business better suited for the anchor chair than Scott.”

In a deeply personal and moving segment that aired on 60 Minutes Sunday night, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan claimed that she thought she was going to die that night in Tahrir Square. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Logan showed great personal courage in sharing specific details, and recovering from an attack that she claims lasted 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men.

CBS News correspondent Lara Logan says she thought she was going to die that night in Tahrir Square. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Logan tells The New York Times in her first public comments about the brutal attack. Logan tells the Times the attack lasted 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men. She will talk about it on 60 Minutes this Sunday.

There’s always a chance that the Katie Couric-is-leaving-the-evening-news story is wrong and the Donald Trump-is-running-for-president story is right, but The New York Times says we’ll finally get the answer on Couric this week, when CBS begins the process of dragging this thing out for at least two more weeks–first by confirming that Couric’s leaving, and then next week telling us that Scott Pelley‘s announcing someone as her replacement.

A new CBS News poll has distressing news for President Obama as he begins his campaign for re-election: fully 70 percent of Americans believe the country is on the “wrong track”–a figure that’s jumped twenty percentage points since Obama took office in 2009. “There is a clear message from this poll: people are just sick of Washington and Washington politicians,” said CBS News political correspondent Jan Crawford on CBS’ Early Show Friday morning. “Americans are saying things are getting worse, not better.”

After a weekend when CBS had, arguably, the best 60 Minutes story in recent memory–along with other notable stories–the boss at CBS News was not pleased with the way the network lost momentum Monday morning. In an email obtained by the New York Post‘s Page Six, recently-appointed CBS News president David Rhodes slammed staffers at CBS’ Early Show for a “bad Monday morning” after a big weekend. “We broke major news,” the paper quotes Rhodes. “Let’s get with it. Where’s our reporting? Make sure it’s in our show.”

At a fundraiser in Chicago yesterday, President Obama was caught on an open mic making some revealing–and tough–comments about health care and Planned Parenthood, telling people in a closed door meeting “you want to repeal health care? Go at it. We’ll have that debate. You’re not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we’re stupid?”

If the rampant but rather bland buzz is to be believed, CBS News will tap 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley as the next anchor of the CBS Evening News, replacing the soon-to-depart (and almost certainly daytime-bound) Katie Couric.

By all accounts, Pelley’s a great guy, well-liked at CBS News, and a fine choice to inherit the chair once owned by Walter Cronkite. Picking Pelley would reshuffle the evening news anchor deck, returning it to mostly white guys, with ABC’s Diane Sawyer the only exception. But what if CBS decided on a more diverse choice? Who’s out there? Is there anybody worth a look?

CBS News Washington bureau chief Chris Isham says a report that he was an FBI informant is “outrageous and untrue.”

The original report–claiming a journalist at ABC News had cooperated with the FBI–led to a swirl of speculation in media circles. Isham concedes he may have been the person being discussed, but he was no “informant.” Isham worked as an investigative journalist at ABC, and he says he would contact the FBI in the course of stories to attempt to confirm facts.

Ask, and the internet swiftly provides: Earlier today, we told you about a declassified memo describing an unnamed ABC News journalist looked at by the FBI as a possible informant after he had revealed information about a (false) tip the network received concerning Saudi connections to the Oklahoma City bombing. ABC News claimed to be unsure of the journalist’s identity, but seemed confident that the person in question no longer worked at the network.

Turns out, that’s true: The journalist in question has now been identified, by multiple sources, as CBS News’ Washington bureau chief / vice president Christopher Isham.

It seems fairly certain that very soon, CBS News will come to the end of the Katie Couric era. For many, that means an entertaining round of media speculation about who will inherit the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News.

Much of the speculation has focused on Scott Pelley, the CBS lifer who’s a correspondent at 60 Minutes. Pelley’s a nice guy, a good reporter and would surely do a fine job as an evening news anchor.

The Associated Press is reporting that an unnamed source identified as a network executive has confirmed that Katie Couric will be leaving the anchor chair at CBS Evening News. This comes as unexpected news to dozens of individuals who have not paid close attention to the many recent public and private comments concerning Couric’s future at CBS News that have given every indication that she is preparing to move on.

The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz says CBS News is deep into the process of finding a replacement for Evening News anchor Katie Couric, whose contract ends in June. “The search is on” for a worthy successor, writes Kurtz, with “the new CBS News chairman, Jeff Fager, is looking at candidates both within and outside the network, insiders say.”

A top contender at CBS, Kurtz says, is 60 Minutes‘ Scott Pelley:

A CBS News survey shows half of Americans approve of how President Obama is handling the situation in Libya, with just 29 percent saying they disapprove. Twenty-one percent said they did not have an opinion. CBS pollsters say the solid support includes an unusually strong showing from Republicans:

Katie Couric‘s position at CBS News has come under question recently as reports have indicated both that their head anchorwoman may be looking for another home or that the network is attempting to significantly reduce her pay. And now resident media man at The O’Reilly Factor and veteran analyst Bernie Goldberg is betting his hat on it: “As anchorwoman of the CBS News, when her contract is out, she is gone.”

CBS News report one of its journalists in Bahrain, Toula Vlahou, was shot at by riot police during a clash between protesters and police in a village outside Manama.”We were attacked by a wall of riot police,” Vlahou said. “We thought they were going to fire tear gas at us. But they fired pellets at us.”

Vlahou says she and her driver, a Bahraini photographer working for the BBC, had already decided to leave the area when they were fired on:

The February finishing order for the network evening newscasts didn’t look much different, with Brian Williams‘ NBC Nightly News taking top honors, followed by Diane Sawyer‘s ABC World News and Katie Couric‘s CBS Evening News finishing last.

But at ABC, news execs point to promising signs World News is making progress. It was the best ratings ABC’s best February performance in three years, and compared to February 2010, World News grew its total audience by one percent, the only network evening news program to grow (CBS was down by 4% and NBC dropped by 10%).

MSNBC’s Morning Joe took on the disturbing story of the brutal attack on CBS correspondent Lara Logan, with Willie Geist describing Logan as “tough as hell.”

Mika Brzezinski, who was visibly upset describing the few details that are known about the story, credited Logan for the “very tough decision of going public” with the story of the attack and said she was praying for her.