Lara Logan's Fox Nation gig is the most conservative turn of her career so far, but politics have cast a long shadow over her work

Lara Logan, the South African-born journalist who made a name for herself covering the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, recently sparked controversy by comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to Dr. Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who experimented on Auschwitz prisoners.

Logan experienced a meteoric rise at CBS in the 2000s and early 2010s, before an inaccurate story tainted her image. She left the network in 2018, and two years later started hosting a show on Fox News' streaming service, Fox Nation.

Logan got her start in journalism at Reuters Television in Africa, where she worked a senior producer from 1992-1996, according to an old biography on the CBS News website.

Her work started to attract attention after she moved to London in the mid-1990s, first as a stringer for CNN during the conflict in the Balkans, and later for breakfast show GMTV, as Joe Hagan detailed in a 2014 profile of Logan for New York Magazine.

Lara Logan in 2007.Margaret Norton/NBCU Photo Bank

Logan sued Hagan over the New York Magazine story, saying it derailed her career, but the suit was was thrown out in 2020, according to Women's Wear Daily.

Her work started to attract attention after she moved to London in the mid-1990s, first as a stringer for CNN during the conflict in the Balkans, and later for breakfast show GMTV, as Joe Hagan detailed in a 2014 profile of Logan for New York Magazine.

Logan sued Hagan over the New York Magazine story, saying it derailed her career, but the suit was was thrown out in 2020, according to Women's Wear Daily.

Logan was working at GMTV on 9/11 and convinced her bosses to let her travel to Kabul to report on the invasion of Afghanistan, Hagan reported for New York Magazine.

Logan's reports from Kabul led to a bidding war as news networks fought to hire a "captivating beauty with a smoldering presence in the war zone," Hagan wrote. Logan ended up taking a job at CBS, where she landed a $1 million full-time contract.

During her 16 years at CBS, Logan made a name for herself by reporting from the frontlines, including securing interviews with major military figures.

But her connections in the military sometimes blurred the lines of professionalism. During the Iraq War, she started dating her current husband, who worked for a firm hired by the government to push pro-military stories, New York Magazine reported.

Logan made headlines herself while covering the ousting of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Logan became separated from her crew, after which she said she was raped by a mob of men.

It was around this time that Logan first started overtly expressing her political views, including criticizing a fellow reporter whose profile of a general resulted in that official's firing, New York Magazine reported.

Michael Hastings in 2012.Jeff Neira/CBS via Getty Images

In June 2010, then-President Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal from his position as the top US commander in Afghanistan after Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings published an article including disparaging remarks the general made about the president and his national security team.

In an appearance on CNN's Reliable Sources, Logan speculated that Hastings published comments McChrystal made off the record, and therefore not meant for publishing. But Hastings told CNN during the same show that no ground rules were laid out for the story and he assumed his talks with McChrystal were on the record.

"Michael Hastings has never served his country the way Commander McChrystal has," Logan said.

Source: New York Magazine

It was around this time that Logan first started overtly expressing her political views, including criticizing a fellow reporter whose profile of a general resulted in that official's firing, New York Magazine reported.

In June 2010, then-President Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal from his position as the top US commander in Afghanistan after Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings published an article including disparaging remarks the general made about the president and his national security team.

In an appearance on CNN's Reliable Sources, Logan speculated that Hastings published comments McChrystal made off the record, and therefore not meant for publishing. But Hastings told CNN during the same show that no ground rules were laid out for the story and he assumed his talks with McChrystal were on the record.

Michael Hastings has never served his country the way Commander McChrystal has, Logan said.

Source: New York Magazine

Then came what The Daily Beast described as a "provocative" speech at the annual lunch of the Better Government Association in 2012, where Logan criticized Obama's decision to ramp down the US military presence in the Middle East.

Source: The Daily Beast

Then came what The Daily Beast described as a "provocative" speech at the annual lunch of the Better Government Association in 2012, where Logan criticized Obama's decision to ramp down the US military presence in the Middle East.

Logan's politics weren't necessarily seen as a negative at CBS, according to Hagan, who wrote in New York Magazine that the correspondent "inoculated" the network against "charges of a leftist agenda."

Logan's career later imploded in 2013, when she was forced to apologize for inaccuracies in a "60 Minutes" story about the 2012 attack on the US governmental compound in Benghazi, Libya.

Logan scored an exclusive interview with a security contractor, Dylan Davies, who claimed to have responded to the attack at the government compound.

But The New York Times soon revealed that Davies had mostly made up the story to sell a book for a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS' parent company.

CBS put Logan and a producer, Max McClellan, on indefinite leave in late November 2013 following an internal review of the story, which found it to be "deficient in several respects," The Times reported.

Logan quietly returned to work on "60 Minutes" seven months later, according to the The Hollywood Reporter.

Just as quietly as she returned to the network, Logan left CBS in 2018. Her exit wasn't revealed until February 2019, when a CBS spokesperson told Variety that Logan was no longer with the network and hadn't been for several months.

Variety looked into the status of Logan's employment after she appeared on a conservative former Navy SEAL's podcast, where she voiced the opinion that most media outlets skew liberal.

"The media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just the US," Logan said on the podcast, according to Variety. "This interview is professional suicide for me."

Logan said news consumers should get their news from both liberal and conservative outlets.

Variety looked into the status of Logan's employment after she appeared on a conservative former Navy SEAL's podcast, where she voiced the opinion that most media outlets skew liberal.

Hagan wrote in his 2014 profile of Logan that CBS producers and crew members he spoke with didn't think of Logan as "particularly political," but that she "came to stories with strong biases" more typical in British media, where she got her start.

Logan in 2005.Larry Busacca/WireImage for AWRT

Source: New York Magazine

Hagan wrote in his 2014 profile of Logan that CBS producers and crew members he spoke with didn't think of Logan as "particularly political," but that she "came to stories with strong biases" more typical in British media, where she got her start.

In the aftermath of Logan's comments on Fauci, one of her former producers, Peter Klein, wrote in an op-ed that Logan "tried to push the envelope sometimes" in his experience working with her, but he still found her to be a "good reporter."

But Klein wrote that he saw a new version of Logan emerge two years ago, and he's watched as she's popped up occasionally to make "controversial comments that keep her relevant."

Upon leaving CBS News, Logan did a stint at the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, before debuting her Fox Nation show, "Lara Logan Has No Agenda," in January 2020.

Lara Logan's Fox Nation gig is the most conservative turn of her career so far, but politics have cast a long shadow over her work

Lara Logan, the South African-born journalist who made a name for herself covering the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, recently sparked controversy by comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to Dr. Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who experimented on Auschwitz prisoners.

Logan experienced a meteoric rise at CBS in the 2000s and early 2010s, before an inaccurate story tainted her image. She left the network in 2018, and two years later started hosting a show on Fox News' streaming service, Fox Nation.

Logan got her start in journalism at Reuters Television in Africa, where she worked a senior producer from 1992-1996, according to an old biography on the CBS News website.

Her work started to attract attention after she moved to London in the mid-1990s, first as a stringer for CNN during the conflict in the Balkans, and later for breakfast show GMTV, as Joe Hagan detailed in a 2014 profile of Logan for New York Magazine.

Logan was working at GMTV on 9/11 and convinced her bosses to let her travel to Kabul to report on the invasion of Afghanistan, Hagan reported for New York Magazine.

Logan's reports from Kabul led to a bidding war as news networks fought to hire a "captivating beauty with a smoldering presence in the war zone," Hagan wrote. Logan ended up taking a job at CBS, where she landed a $1 million full-time contract.

During her 16 years at CBS, Logan made a name for herself by reporting from the frontlines, including securing interviews with major military figures.

But her connections in the military sometimes blurred the lines of professionalism. During the Iraq War, she started dating her current husband, who worked for a firm hired by the government to push pro-military stories, New York Magazine reported.

Logan made headlines herself while covering the ousting of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Logan became separated from her crew, after which she said she was raped by a mob of men.

It was around this time that Logan first started overtly expressing her political views, including criticizing a fellow reporter whose profile of a general resulted in that official's firing, New York Magazine reported.

Then came what The Daily Beast described as a "provocative" speech at the annual lunch of the Better Government Association in 2012, where Logan criticized Obama's decision to ramp down the US military presence in the Middle East.

Logan's politics weren't necessarily seen as a negative at CBS, according to Hagan, who wrote in New York Magazine that the correspondent "inoculated" the network against "charges of a leftist agenda."

Logan's career later imploded in 2013, when she was forced to apologize for inaccuracies in a "60 Minutes" story about the 2012 attack on the US governmental compound in Benghazi, Libya.

Logan scored an exclusive interview with a security contractor, Dylan Davies, who claimed to have responded to the attack at the government compound.

But The New York Times soon revealed that Davies had mostly made up the story to sell a book for a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS' parent company.

CBS put Logan and a producer, Max McClellan, on indefinite leave in late November 2013 following an internal review of the story, which found it to be "deficient in several respects," The Times reported.

Logan quietly returned to work on "60 Minutes" seven months later, according to the The Hollywood Reporter.

Just as quietly as she returned to the network, Logan left CBS in 2018. Her exit wasn't revealed until February 2019, when a CBS spokesperson told Variety that Logan was no longer with the network and hadn't been for several months.

Variety looked into the status of Logan's employment after she appeared on a conservative former Navy SEAL's podcast, where she voiced the opinion that most media outlets skew liberal.

Hagan wrote in his 2014 profile of Logan that CBS producers and crew members he spoke with didn't think of Logan as "particularly political," but that she "came to stories with strong biases" more typical in British media, where she got her start.

In the aftermath of Logan's comments on Fauci, one of her former producers, Peter Klein, wrote in an op-ed that Logan "tried to push the envelope sometimes" in his experience working with her, but he still found her to be a "good reporter."

But Klein wrote that he saw a new version of Logan emerge two years ago, and he's watched as she's popped up occasionally to make "controversial comments that keep her relevant."

Upon leaving CBS News, Logan did a stint at the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, before debuting her Fox Nation show, "Lara Logan Has No Agenda," in January 2020.

She's also made regular guest appearances on Fox News, including subbing in for primetime host Tucker Carlson.

The episode of Fox News Primetime where Logan made her comments about Fauci is unavailable online, and she hasn't appeared on the network since.