For months, the mainstream media did little reporting about the truth on Benghazi. Last week, 60 Minutes finally did a special on Benghazi -- and promptly screwed it up. On Friday, Lara Logan of 60 Minutes said on CBS This Morning that one of the sources she used for a story about the attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi might have lied:

Well, 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. It's very disappointing for me. Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong. And in this case we were wrong. We made a mistake and how did this happen? Well, Dylan Davies [the source who may have lied] worked for the State Department in Libya. He was the manager of the local guard force at the Benghazi special mission compound, and he described for us his actions that night, saying that he had entered the compound and he said he had a confrontation with one of the attackers and he also said that he's seen the body of Ambassador Chris Stevens at a local hospital. After our report aired questions were raised whether his account was real. After an incident report surfaced that told a different story about what he'd done that night. He denied that report. He said that he told the FBI the same story he told us, but what we now know is he told the FBI a different story to what he told us. And, you know, that was the moment for us when we realized that we no longer had confidence in our source and we were wrong to put him on air, and we apologize to our viewers.

During the fourteen months since the terrorist attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the mainstream media has avoided its responsibility to investigate the many remaining question's about the attack, and the subsequent cover-up by the Administration.  One of the most unfortunate elements of this 60 Minutes revelation is that it may allow other mainstream media outlets to dismiss Benghazi as an issue altogether. The damage to the truth extends beyond the public being told incorrect information; it may mean the public will never find out what happened that horrible night in Benghazi.