Lara Logan, the photogenic CBS war correspondent who was disgraced and disappeared after a false report she wrote on the terrorist attack in Benghazi, is suddenly back in the news -- but it's hard to tell why.

New York Magazine last week ran a piece on her fall from grace titled "Benghazi and the Bombshell -- Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes?" The lengthy article (eight takes on its website) was filled with praise for the hardworking reporter from South Africa, but also plenty of unpleasantries -- her penchant for sexy clothing, her (some say unwarranted) rise to the top, her affair that was discovered when her boyfriend walked in on the lovers.

But the mag wanted to make one thing clear about her: "As a journalist, Logan is a product of the Bush years, her career defined by America’s Middle East wars and the military personnel and military contractors who were her sources and friends," wrote Joe Hagan.

Logan for years got inside access to the military, partly due to her charm, but also because of her tenacity. And her pieces were almost always flattering to generals and enlisted men alike: Her take was that they were serving their country and deserved praise, not scorn.

CBS execs saw the coverage as useful -- an "antidote," the mag said. Her reports would give the network the appearance of fairness. How could CBS have a liberal bias if it ran Logan's patriotic pieces?

Then the whole thing went FUBAR. Logan was offered a "first look" at a book titled "The Embassy House," New York mag wrote. The author was a former military contractor named Dylan Davies who claimed he was an eyewitness to the attack in Benghazi.

Without much fact checking, CBS ran the story last October. But it turned out to be wrong -- way wrong. Davies wasn't there at all, didn't see anything. In fact, he never mentioned any of the wild claims in his book when the FBI interviewed him.

Logan wasn't fired, she was put on indefinite leave, as was a producer. And the magazine piece ends by saying "Lara Logan may, or may not, return in the fall season" and that "a well-placed source at CBS suggests that [network president Les Moonves] has soured on Logan."

So a reporter failed at her core job -- to gather facts, triple check them, report the truth -- and disappeared. Why the story?

Because the Left doesn't want her to come back. She was, and is, unabashedly pro-military. But more, she said in October 2012, just as President Obama was seeking to sweep Benghazi under the rug as he the November election loomed, that the administration was telling a "major lie" in claiming al Qaeda and the Taliban had been weakened.

"In your arrogance, you think you write the script," she said about the Obama administration.

Media Matters responded to the magazine piece with an article titled "CBS Still Won't Come Clean About Lara Logan And The Benghazi Debacle."

What the feature also does is remind us that, despite these internal critiques, CBS still refuses to be fully transparent about the controversy and the malpractice that was in play. ... CBS is still dodging the question about partisan politics and how much of a driving force it might have been in Logan's report. ... she had a history of producing 'the kind of stories that kept 60 Minutes immune to criticism from the right.'

Huffington Post wrote:

The '60 Minutes' report was flawed in other ways, including Logan making unsourced allegations that Al Qaeda was behind the attack that killed four Americans and controlled a local hospital. It's still not clear where Logan got this information.

Salon weighed in with a reaction piece:

It turns out that, according to New York magazine, Logan met with longtime Benghazi antagonist Sen. Lindsey Graham several times while researching her story, and Graham told her 'it was "a fair thing to say" that there was a "build-up of Al Qaeda types" in Benghazi.

Proof of bias, clearly.

Now, as the House moves forward with a Select Committee investigation into Benghazi -- partly because of a new email by a top White House aide who crafted talking points so the death of four Americans wouldn't be deemed "a broader failure of policy" -- the Left is looking to shut down the return of Logan. Are they afraid she'll repeat her claim that the Taliban and al Qaeda are still strong, contrary to what Obama says? Or that there really is some there there in the Benghazi story?

Wait and see.

And watch CBS, which pushed Logan to the top in just a few short years. Now, the network is seeking to rewrite its own history, with the New York mage piece quoting "a colleague at CBS News"

It's not an accident that Lara Logan f*cked up. ... It was inevitable. Everybody saw this coming.