Lara Logan Returns to '60 Minutes' After Controversy Over Benghazi Story

Story by the Associated Press; curated by Oliver Darcy.

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NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News' Lara Logan is back at work at "60 Minutes" more than six months after being ordered to take a leave of absence for her role in a story on the Benghazi raid.

CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said Wednesday that Logan is back. She had no details on when the correspondent resumed work and what stories she is working on.

News correspondent Lara Logan of '60 Minutes Sports' speaks onstage during the Showtime portion of the 2013 Winter TCA Tour at Langham Hotel on January 12, 2013 in Pasadena, California. (Photo: Getty Images)

Logan was criticized for basing an October report on the Benghazi raid on the testimony of a security contractor and supposed eyewitness to the 2012 raid at the U.S. mission in Libya. That contractor's story could not be verified.

An internal CBS report also said that Logan should not have done the story in the first place after making public comments about the American effort against al-Qaida.

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