60 Minutes

===U.S. Customs Service===
In 1997, ''60 Minutes'' alleged that agents of the [[U.S. Customs Service]] ignored drug trafficking across the [[Mexico–United States border]] at [[San Diego]].<ref>{{cite news|title=I'd Rather Be Blogging: CBS stonewalls as 'guys in pajamas' uncover a fraud.|url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110005611|last=Fund|first=John|author-link=John Fund|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=September 13, 2004}}</ref> The only evidence was a memorandum apparently written by Rudy Camacho, who was the head of the San Diego branch office. Based on this memo, CBS alleged that Camacho had allowed trucks belonging to a particular firm to cross the border unimpeded. Mike Horner, a former Customs Service employee, had passed the memos on to ''60 Minutes'', and even provided a copy with an official stamp. Camacho was not consulted about the piece, and his career was devastated in the immediate term as his own department placed suspicion on him. In the end, it turned out that Horner had forged the documents as an act of revenge for his treatment within the Customs Service. Camacho sued CBS and settled for an undisclosed amount of money in damages. Hewitt was forced to issue an on-air retraction.<ref>{{cite news|title=Another 60 Minutes' Apology on a Drug Smuggling Story|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/04/13/another-60-minutes-apology-on-a-drug-smuggling-story/b7ac7cd2-42d5-4161-80f8-3b7d5dc5ed48/|last=de Moraes|first=Lisa|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=April 13, 1999|access-date=December 29, 2021}}</ref>