Lara Logan , the CBS correspondent at the center of a discredited October 27 report about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi , Libya , is taking a leave of absence from work , the network said Tuesday . Logan 's longtime producer , Max McClellan , is also taking time off . CBS suggested that the leaves of absence were punitive measures for the shortcomings in the Benghazi report , which has stung the reputations of both Logan and the program that televised her report , `` 60 Minutes . '' With the staff announcements on Tuesday and the release of an internal review , CBS tried to demonstrate that it has figured out what went wrong with its Benghazi report and taken steps to stop similar mistakes in the future . `` The '60 Minutes ' journalistic review is concluded , and we are implementing ongoing changes based on its results , '' a CBS News spokeswoman said Tuesday . 'We were wrong ' : CBS 's Lara Logan apologizes for Benghazi report . But the network declined to comment further on what changes were being implemented or on when Logan might return to work . Logan has not talked publicly about the Benghazi report since she apologized for it on November 10 , and it looks unlikely that she will talk anytime soon ; although she had been scheduled to host a high-profile fund-raising dinner for the Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday night , the committee says her colleague Scott Pelley , the anchor of the `` CBS Evening News , '' is going to fill in for her . Jeff Fager , the chairman of CBS News and the executive producer of `` 60 Minutes , '' said in an internal memorandum that he asked Logan and McClellan to take leaves of absence . Fager said he , not Logan , was ultimately responsible for the mistakes associated with the October 27 report . `` I pride myself in catching almost everything , but this deception got through and it should n't have , '' he said . The exceptionally rare steps by CBS were applauded by Media Matters , the liberal media monitoring group that was among the first to criticize Logan 's conclusions about Benghazi . `` From the start of this controversy , Media Matters has demanded that CBS review the flawed '60 Minutes ' report and take appropriate action . Today , the network has done that , '' the group 's chairman , David Brock , said in a statement . `` We hope this serves as a lesson learned to CBS about the danger of misinformation . '' The missteps in the report stemmed from an interview with Dylan Davies , a security contractor who was in Benghazi on the night of the assault , which left four Americans dead , including Ambassador Christopher Stevens . Davies claimed in the interview that he was present at the compound , but that account contradicted what he had previously told the FBI , the State Department and his own employer . 'We were wrong ' : Lara Logan apologizes for Benghazi report . CBS executives have said that they did n't know the details of the government interviews of Davies but did know that he 'd told his employer a different story . `` This crucial point -- his admission that he had not told his employer the truth about his own actions -- should have been a red flag in the editorial vetting process , '' said Al Ortiz , the head of standards and practices for CBS , in the network 's internal review , which was shared with employees on Tuesday . Ortiz also faulted the `` 60 Minutes '' staff with keeping its interview to itself — something that outside critics said weeks ago when questions about the report were first raised . `` The fact that the FBI and the State Department had information that differed from the account Davies gave to '60 Minutes ' was knowable before the piece aired , '' Ortiz wrote . `` But the wider reporting resources of CBS News were not employed in an effort to confirm his account . It 's possible that reporters and producers with better access to inside FBI sources could have found out that Davies had given varying and conflicting accounts of his story . '' Congressional source : Benghazi contractors seem to contradict CIA chief .
Lara ##way and how Max McClellan chose to leave employed by CBS . Leave of absence come at the end of an internal review of their Benghazi operations . The ` ` 60 Minutes '' report centered on a source who gave contradictory accounts . CBS apologized for the October report earlier this month .