Of all the obstacles CBS faced in gathering information about the Benghazi terrorist attack, obstacles erected by the Obama administration loomed the largest, according to the journalists who put together the Oct. 27 “60 Minutes” report.

“The administration is cracking down so hard on leakers: No one wants to put anything in writing, everybody is scared to talk over the phone, people want to meet in person; all of that makes it that much harder to investigate anything,” said CBS’s Lara Logan.