CBS airs El Salvador prison report pulled from '60 Minutes'
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The 13-minute segment, titled "Inside CECOT," was pulled just three hours before its scheduled broadcast on December 21.
When a fully vetted 60 Minutes investigation vanished just hours before airtime, it sent shockwaves through American journalism. The December 21, 2025 decision to pull a completed segment on alleged torture at El Salvador’s CECOT prison sparked internal outrage,
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CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss yanked a "60 Minutes" report on alleged torture at a notorious prison in El Salvador; weeks later, it remains spiked.