[Phantom Lord]

So basically, CBS is saying that they verbally asked people if what is written in the documents sound real. Upon their answering in the affirmative, CBS went to air stating that the documents were real without ever having the documents looked at.

[Howlin]

Evidently..........amazing, huh?

And quite contrary to what they said on the show last night:

But 60 Minutes has obtained a number of documents we are told were taken from Col. Killian's personal file. Among them, a never-before-seen memorandum from May 1972, where Killian writes that Lt. Bush called him to talk about "how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November."

Lt. Bush tells his commander "he is working on a campaign in Alabama…. and may not have time to take his physical." Killian adds that he thinks Lt. Bush has gone over his head, and is "talking to someone upstairs."

Col. Killian died in 1984. 60 Minutes consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"A senior CBS official, who asked not to be named because CBS managers did not want to go beyond their official statement, named one of the network's sources as retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, the immediate superior of the documents' alleged author, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He said that a CBS reporter read the documents to Hodges over the phone, and that Hodges replied that "these are the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time."

That from the Washington Post story.

[theDentist]

Oh man, that isn't journalism, it's rumor-monguering.

Well, I'll pickl it up tomorrow. I'm reading all this, just saw the Pats win their season-opener, and I have to be up at 4 am. See you tomorrow.