 Before the "Vietnam Deception" controversy Crile was embroiled in a similar controversy following the 1980 "CBS Reports" program "Gay Power, Gay Politics", which he reported, wrote, and co-produced.The program focused on gay politics in San Francisco following the assassination of openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978.It was widely denounced as manipulative and dishonest, a view partially upheld by the National News Council, an industry self-policing body not known for its willingness to criticize the networks.