[Ronzo]

Now, the producer says, there is growing concern inside the building on 57th Street that they may have been suckered by the Kerry campaign. "There is a school of thought here that the Kerry people dumped this in our laps, figuring we'd do the heavy lifting on the story. That maybe they had doubts about these documents but hoped we'd get more information," says the producer. "If that's the case, then we're bigger fools than we already appear to be judging by all the chatter about how these documents could be forgeries."

Let the FINGER POINTING BEGIN!!!!

Actually, it would be fun to have these traced back to the Kerry campaign and the DNC...

[Kozak]

The CBS producer said that some alarms bells went off last week when the signatures and initials of Killian on the documents in hand did not match up with other documents available on the public record, but producers chose to move ahead with the story. "This was too hot not to push. If there were doubts, those people didn't show it," says the producer, who works on a rival CBS News program.

This is the key statment. They SUSPECTED the doc's were shakey, but rushed the story out anyway. STUPID.

[HawaiianGecko]

Can you imagine the dilemma inside CBS.  Lose our jobs or lose the election!