Lara Logan Detained in Egypt

CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan was detained by the Egyptian police. Logan and her crew were taken to the airport and expelled from Egypt. Charlie Rose interviewed Logan about Egypt and her detention. Logan makes it clear the protests were started by the people and not the Muslim Brotherhood.

Logan tells Rose that President Hosni Mubarak wants a journalism blackout. This will allow Mubarak to use the police and miltary to brutally crackdown on the protesters. President Barack Obama needs to speak out on behave for the safety of the protesters. America either supports free speech or it doesn't. It we don't speak out on behave of the Egyptian protesters then the United States will have no credibility speaking out on free speech and democratic reforms in the future. Iran and North Korea can throw our support for the Mubarak regime in our faces when we pressure those countries for democratic reforms.

Update: Logan explains to Rose that the protesters find Obama's half-hearted gestures of supporting democratic reform bullshit. The Egyptian government is pissed at Obama not not providing full support after all the help they provided the United States with fighting terrorism. Trianglation fails again.

Update: Logan tells Rose that her Egyptian driver was badly beaten in an interrogation room.