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Threshold Editions has halted the publication of a book by Dylan Davies, who is at the center of the controversy surrounding “60 Minutes’s” recent Benghazi segment.

The publisher, a conservative subsidiary of Simon & Schuster, announced Friday it has withdrawn Davies’s book, The Embassy House: The Explosive Eyewitness Account of the Libyan Embassy Siege by the Soldier Who Was There, according to multiple reports.

"In light of information that has been brought to our attention since the initial publication of 'The Embassy House,' we have withdrawn from publication and sale all formats of this book, and are recommending that booksellers do the same," Threshold spokeswoman Jennifer Robinson said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. "We also are notifying accounts that they may return the book to us."
On Thursday night, CBS News announced it was looking into the authenticity of Davies’s account of the night of the Benghazi attack in September 2012, which aired in a “60 Minutes” episode late last month. On Friday, the network apologized for airing the segment.

The New York Times published a piece immediately after the network’s statement Thursday evening, saying the story Davies told on “60 Minutes” differed from the story he provided the FBI just days after the attack. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/189736-publisher-of-b
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'We were wrong': CBS's Lara Logan apologizes for Benghazi report

CBS correspondent Lara Logan apologized Friday and said the network was "wrong" for a "60 Minutes" report that raised questions about the Obama administration's response to last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

The assault left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

"In this case, we were wrong. We made a mistake," Logan said on "CBS This Morning." "That's disappointing for any journalist. It's very disappointing for me."

A primary source for the "60 Minutes" report on October 27 was a security contractor using the pseudonym "Morgan Jones," later identified as Dylan Davies. Davies told CBS he was able to reach the Benghazi compound on the night of September 11, 2012, scale a wall and even fight off a militant.

Also on Friday, the publisher of a book containing Davies' account said it was suspending the sale and publication of the book. Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, is recommending that booksellers not sell "The Embassy House" and return the books

The "60 Minutes" story broadcast October 27 cast doubt on whether the Obama administration sent all possible help to try to save Stevens and his three colleagues. The story was then cited by congressional Republicans who have demanded to know why a military rescue was not attempted.

On Friday, Logan responded to questions from CBS's Norah O'Donnell, who pressed her for details about Davies.

"What we know now is, he told the FBI a different story to what he told us," Logan said. "That was the moment for us when we realized that we no longer had confidence in our source and we were wrong to put him on air, and we apologize to our viewers."

The CBS story first came into question because of an incident report filed by the contractor's employer, the Blue Mountain security company. The incident report, obtained by CNN and first reported in The Washington Post, said the contractor never reached the Benghazi compound.

The incident report also revealed the real name of "Morgan Jones" to be Davies.

CBS initially stood by the story after the incident report came to light. Davies said he never saw the incident report. But he said it matched a false account he gave his Blue Mountain supervisor to cover up that he had disobeyed the supervisor's order not to go to the compound.

In a statement to CNN this week, Davies said, "The account in my book is consistent with what I gave to the FBI and U.S. authorities about what happened in Benghazi."

Since the revelations about problems with the story, Logan said CBS has tried to contact Davies but has not heard from him. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/08/politics/cbs-benghazi/]

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Former '60 Minutes' Producer: Discredited Benghazi Story Was Done To Appeal To Conservatives

A former "60 Minutes" producer who was fired over a 2004 story about then-President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard said Friday that CBS' now retracted story detailing the attack in Benghazi, Libya was done to appeal to conservatives.

"My concern is that the story was done very pointedly to appeal to a more conservative audience's beliefs about what happened at Benghazi," Mary Mapes said. "They appear to have done that story to appeal specifically to a politically conservative audience that is obsessed with Benghazi and believes that Benghazi was much more than a tragedy."

The chairman of CBS News and executive producer of "60 Minutes" on Friday apologized for airing the story, telling Variety that the network would now "own it."

CBS said it was misled by the source who provided the account, and publication has been halted for a book about the night on Sept. 11, 2012. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/former-60-minutes-producer-discr
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Lindsey Graham Silent About Discredited '60 Minutes' Benghazi Report That He Hyped


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) trumpeted the recent "60 Minutes" piece on last year's attack in Benghazi perhaps louder than any other Republican, but he's been mostly silent since CBS News retracted the report on Friday.


Graham has drawn heavy attention to the "60 Minutes" report since it first aired on Oct. 27.

He told CNN's Wolf Blitzer last week that the report filed by CBS News correspondent Lara Logan proved that "the story told by the administration about what happened in Benghazi doesn't have an ounce of truth in it."

Appearing on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday, Graham said that the discredited witness in the "60 Minutes" report "really does destroy the narrative" on Benghazi.

"Can you imagine if we knew all these things before the election?" Fox host Brian Kilmeade asked Graham during that interview.

"Can you only imagine?" Graham said.

On the heels of the "60 Minutes" report, Graham announced his intention to block every Obama administration appointee until survivors of the Benghazi attack testify before Congress.

But after CBS finally retracted the story this morning, Graham is now declining to discuss the story or the retraction. After multiple requests for comment, a spokesman for Graham finally responded with an email saying that the senator "will be a guest on CNN State of the Union discussing the latest on Benghazi and the Iranian nuclear program" this Sunday. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lindsey-graham-silent-about-disc
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