[randita]

"We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television.

It's saying something when a news organization is so easily satisfied with what were obvious forgeries.

There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know.

And there was a great deal of conflicting evidence from people in a position to know, e.g. document experts, Killian's family, Killian's co-workers, which you failed to mention. How do you explain that?

[Williams]

First, the folks at CBS are total partisans and could care less about the truth. For purposes of the more intelligent discussion that takes place here: There is a huge difference between a couple of questionable characters saying inflammatory things about a president (which is all CBS really had) and a story claiming to be presenting documentary evidence proving those otherwise questionable characters are telling the God's honest truth.