CNN's Misuse of Libya Ambassador's Journal

Sunday afternoon The Huffington Post disclosed a story on how they contacted the media mogul, CNN, on Friday afternoon after receiving a tip that it had removed Christopher Stevens' journal from the U.S. consulate in Benghazi following the attack.

According to the Huffington Post report, shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday, CNN.com posted an un-bylined story explaining that CNN had found the journal four days after the attack "on the floor of the largely unsecured consulate compound where [Stevens] was fatally wounded."

Though the journal was returned to the family "within hours", it was admittedly used as a source by CNN without his family's permission.

State Department spokesman Philippe Reines says CNN broke a pledge to the late ambassador's family that it wouldn't report on the diary according to an NBC Bay Area report on Sunday. Reines is a senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

This type of behavior is reprehensible and the network should incur some disciplinary action. A precedent should be set as other media networks are striving to maintain journalistic integrity.