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CBS to Say It Was Misled on Bush Guard Memos
Network Plans to Issue Statement on Disputed Documents Used on '60 Minutes' Broadcast

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 20, 2004; Page A14

CBS News plans to issue a statement, perhaps as early as today, saying that it was misled on the purported National Guard memos the network used to charge that President Bush received favored treatment 30 years ago.

The statement would represent a huge embarrassment for the network, which insisted for days that the documents reported by Dan Rather on "60 Minutes" are authentic. But the statement could help defuse a crisis that has torn at the network's credibility.

It is not clear whether the statement will include an apology for a story now believed to be based on forged documents, although that is under consideration, sources familiar with the matter said. The sources said they could not be identified because CBS is making no official statement.

CBS has stood by the story, even as numerous document experts have called the memos forgeries and a former secretary in Bush's Guard unit told reporters, including Rather, that the memos were fake -- although she said they reflected the feelings of Bush's former squadron commander in the Texas Air National Guard.

The statement was being hammered out last night after Rather went to Texas to tape an interview with Bill Burkett, the retired Guard official widely believed to have helped provide "60 Minutes" with the memos. Burkett, who has urged Democratic activists to wage "war" against Republican "dirty tricks," would not comment in an e-mail to The Washington Post on whether he had been CBS's confidential source.

CBS News President Andrew Heyward, while declining to comment on what interviews the network may be conducting, said yesterday: "We've said we are trying very hard to get to the bottom of these questions."

Burkett, who retired from the Austin headquarters of the Guard in 1998, has said he once saw some of Bush's military records in a trash can. He also says he overheard a conversation among Guard officials about sanitizing the president's military records, which Guard officials strongly deny.

Burkett's motivation could be suspect because he said in a Web posting last month that he tried to contact John F. Kerry's presidential campaign with information for a "counteratack."

Over the weekend, Bush told the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader that "there are a lot of questions" about the CBS documents "and they need to be answered."

Asked about Bush's remarks, Heyward said: "I don't feel any more pressure than before. I agree with President Bush that the sooner we can resolve these questions, the better."
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So if they are fake..who gave them fake docs? My dad (a ultra conservative) is convinced that the Democractic party did it. Not some 3rd party who is nefarious and wants Kerry to win..but the party itself...Would political parties stoop that low?
 
Originally posted by: pio!pio!
So if they are fake..who gave them fake docs? My dad (a ultra conservative) is convinced that the Democractic party did it. Not some 3rd party who is nefarious and wants Kerry to win..but the party itself...Would political parties stoop that low?
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Without a doubt.
 
Originally posted by: SuperTool
It's a vast left wing conspiracy
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Maybe we can find a crippled republican to show up on Kerry's doorstep trying to get him to condemn the report.
 

WRONG FORUM DINGO.
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Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: SuperTool
Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: SuperTool
It's a vast left wing conspiracy
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Maybe we can find a crippled republican to show up on Kerry's doorstep trying to get him to condemn the report.
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crippled republican sounds redundant 😀
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and SuperTool is so fitting.
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So when are you gonna show up on Kerry's doorstep?
 
Well although charity work is important to me I'm afraid schedule conflicts will prevent me from escorting you and the rest of your short bus friends. Sorry bud. Your on your own. 🙁 You can do it though. I have faith in you. 🙂
 
Rather is such a deeb, during the 2000 election night he was bragging about how accurate cbs would be in projecting who the President would be then they projected that Bush was the winner and then they had to retract it.
 
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