From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

Brooke Gladstone is away. I'm Bob Garfield.

Last week, we saw a dramatic CBS exclusive unravel.

We end our broadcast tonight with a correction on a story we reported October 27th about the attack on the American Special Mission compound

in Benghazi, in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

That's correspondent Lara Logan.

On October 27th, 60 Minutes aired her interview with security contractor Dylan Davies, using the pseudonym Morgan Jones,

who was in Libya during last September's assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi.

What is no longer in doubt is that the Benghazi episode was a coordinated attack by Islamic militants

on the anniversary of 9-11.

It was not, as President Obama first seemed to characterize it,

a spontaneous protest over an inflammatory anti-Muslim video that had recently surfaced.

The attack also laid bare a series of management and leadership failures at the State Department,

but no internal investigation, congressional inquiry, or journalistic enterprise has located anything more sinister.

Still, for the past year, Benghazi has been used as a political bludgeon by conservative media and House Republicans who have

convened hearings, attacked administration figures, and entertained elaborate conspiracy theories,

mostly alleging a politically motivated cover-up by a president seeking re-election.

The GOP fanned smoke had yielded no actual fire and had largely dissipated when Davies

showed up on 60 Minutes. He recounted his heroics amid the chaos and lack of trained guards at the

compound, an account which impeached the administration's version of events.

Morgan Jones scaled the 12-foot-high wall of the compound

that was still overrun with al-Qaeda fighters.

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