Late last week, the New York Post published a story about "60 Minutes," reporting that CBS News chief Bari Weiss and the newsmagazine's executive producer, Nick Bilton, were "kept in the dark" about a consequential editorial decision involving an immigration story that had aired on the program. The segment, reported by new contributor Gianna Toboni, examined the Trump administration's controversial practice of so-called "third-country deportations." It centered, in part, on Moussa Diawara, a man deported by the U.S. to Ghana, whose government subsequently sent him to Mali—the very country a U.S. judge had ruled he should not be returned to over fears of persecution.

Shortly after the segment aired, the Department of Homeland Security went ballistic on CBS News. The agency accused Diawara of committing immigration fraud, pointing to his claim on an asylum application that he was gay, despite now being married to a woman with children. That detail, however, had been omitted from the "60 Minutes" report, which instead attributed Diawara's fears of persecution in Mali to his conversion to Christianity. I'm told that Toboni and the "60 Minutes" team working on the story made a deliberate decision to exclude the claim about Diawara's sexuality, fearing that publicizing it could expose him to further persecution in Mali, where homosexuality is criminalized.