As Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent at CBS News who just returned from Iraq, is given a home base in Washington, there’s one piece of baggage she’ll be bringing with her: a report that she’s the other woman in Texas couple Joe and Kimberly Burkett’s divorce. So the National Enquirer story goes, Logan began seeing Joe in Baghdad, where she was reporting from and where he was a contractor for the U.S. State Department. So distraught was Joe’s wife Kimberly over the affair, she supposedly overdosed on Valium, though she’s also alleged to have carried on her own extramarital dalliance.
And then there’s that other rumor, about Logan’s “romance with a star CNN correspondent.”
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What do we like about CBS News’ Lara Logan more than her accent? How adamantly she defends the media’s reporting from Iraq on Howard Kurtz’s show — and her demanding Laura Ingraham shut her trap and report from Iraq. You know, even though Ingraham already did.