This sort of arrogant sloppiness is a result of excessive drug use among the jounalists of the 'Stonedest Generation'.
The "Tiffany" network is turning into a pawn shop.
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I really think Chris Wallace should recuse himself from any interview and discussion of CBS and their newest fraud.
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Please keep up the posts. Also please support the websites that do the research to prove that these documents are frauds. We will win this. The MSM can't bury this. CBS will lose. Keep it up. Have faith. We will prevail!
Does it mention Mary Mapes? Was she possibly the producer of that story?
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I have Lexis-Nexis. I'm only posting about the first-quarter of the article, but this is the important part about the false memo. Mapes wasn't mentioned.
The Washington Post - April 13, 1999, Tuesday, Final Edition
HEADLINE: Another '60 Minutes' Apology on a Drug Smuggling Story
BYLINE: Lisa de Moraes
BODY: For the second time in four months, CBS's "60 Minutes" has made an on-air apology regarding a report about drug smuggling. This time it's over a memo that turned out to be bogus.
Correspondent Lesley Stahl delivered the apology on Sunday's broadcast, as part of a settlement with a customs official who had sued the newsmagazine.
In December, "60 Minutes" founder Don Hewitt apologized on-air for a June 1, 1997, story based on a British documentary about smugglers who swallowed heroin in latex gloves to get past authorities. An investigative panel later determined that the documentary producers had faked locations and paid actors to portray drug couriers.
In Sunday's apology, Stahl emphasized that the April 20, 1997, segment accurately reported on the flow of illegal drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border at San Diego.
But that report, which was presented by Mike Wallace, cited a memo said to be written by Rudy Camacho, the San Diego district director of the Customs Service, calling for customs agents to quickly process trucks owned by a company linked to Mexican drug cartels.
The Customs Service in Washington investigated and found the memo to be fake, and that no preferential treatment was offered, Stahl said. "60 Minutes" had already reported in February 1998 that the memo was declared bogus. But Camacho sued; the on-air apology was part of an "amicable settlement" between him and CBS News, a "60 Minutes" spokesman said.
"We have concluded that we were deceived, and ultimately so were you, our viewers," Stahl said. "Under the circumstances, we regret that any reference to that memo or to Mr. Camacho's connection with it was included in our original report and apologize for any harm to Mr. Camacho's professional reputation and any distress caused to him and his family."
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Was it not 60 min. That had the rigged the exploding P/U Truck gas tanks footage some time back ( 10 -15 years ) ?
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