Lara Logan Reportedly Returning to 60 Minutes Early Next Year

60 Minutes reporter Lara Logan, currently on leave of absence from the program after her botched report on the Benghazi attacks, is returning to the show at an unspecified date early next year, according to POLITICO, as well as Max McClellan, the producer who worked with Logan on the report.

CBS conducted an internal review of the report and Logan ended up getting the brunt of the criticism, though she did have some defenders in the media.

POLITICO’s Dylan Byers reports Logan’s return “could come as early as next month,” though a spokesperson for the show would not say anything definitive.

This news comes on a day when the long-running newsmagazine faces another round of flak for a piece on the NSA widely panned as uncritical.

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