After her now discredited 60 Minutes story on the Benghazi attacks, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was given an indefinite suspension from the show.

She has since found an ally in Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who has labeled her a "hero journalist."

"[I'm] very shocked," Huckabee said on Fox News, about Logan's removal from the show. "And I think the fact is that we're missing the big story here. We still don't know what happened in Benghazi. Our government lied to us, they covered it up. Lara Logan is certainly a hero journalist to at least attempt to get the story out."

Logan's Oct. 27 report on Benghazi focused on ex-security officer Dylan Davies, who told her that he had defied orders from his employer, security firm Blue Mountain, to stay at his villa as the attack unfolded. He claimed that he instead raced to the embassy compound, according to CBS News.

Questions first surfaced about the story's reliability when the Washington Post reported the existence of an incident report that stated Davies had instead done as he was told. It was later confirmed that the account Davies had submitted to the FBI also differed from what he had told 60 Minutes.

Logan appeared on CBS This Morning Nov. 8 to apologize for the mistake, saying, "You know the most important thing to every person at 60 Minutes is the truth. And today the truth is we made a mistake. And that's a...that's very disappointing for any journalist. That's very disappointing for me."

"Nobody likes to admit they made a mistake. But if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility-and you have to say you were wrong. And in this case we were wrong," Logan continued.


CBS announced Logan's suspension on Nov. 26.

Logan previously made headlines in 2011 when she was sexually assaulted by a mob while reporting on the Egyptian Revolution.

Tags
60 minutes