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CNN hits back in row over using slain US envoy’s diary

Cooper insisted the security concerns raised in the diary were important and said that “out of respect for his family we have not quoted from his journal, not once.”

Reines was meanwhile embroiled in another row after a heated email exchange with a correspondent for the editorial website Buzzfeed about CNN’s use of the diary ended in a string of crude insults between the two men.

The correspondent, Michael Hastings, sought some answers to what he called “inadequate security precautions” at the Benghazi mission.

But tempers were swiftly lost in the Sunday exchange with Hastings first accusing Reines of giving “bullshit answers” and Reines finally telling him “have a good day. And by good day, I mean Fuck Off.”

Reines told AFP that the email exchange with Buzzfeed “speaks for itself.”

Cooper meanwhile denied Stevens’s diary had been widely read by CNN staff.

“It was not emailed around the newsroom as the US State Department spokesman said it was,” he said, adding CNN correspondent Arwa Darmon had found it three days after the attack and “within hours” the family was informed.

“This was not broadcasting gossip from the pages of someone’s diary, this was not reporting salacious details of someone’s private life,” he said.

“This was reporting information that could impact the national security of the United States, and the safety of US installations in other countries.”

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