NY TIMES ISSUES SERIES OF CORRECTIONS IN CBS RATHER-GATE STORY

Drudge ^ | Sep 17 2004 | Drudge

[blogblogginaway]

An article on Wednesday about disputed memos obtained by CBS News that cast doubt on aspects of President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard truncated a quotation from David Van Os, a lawyer for Bill Burkett, a retired National Guard officer whom Newsweek called a source of the memos. Asked what role Mr. Burkett had in raising questions about Mr. Bush's military service, Mr. Van Os posed a hypothetical chain of events in which someone - not Mr. Burkett, he said - reconstructed documents that the preparer believed existed in 1972 or 1973. Mr. Van Os then asked "what difference would even that make'' to the "factual reality of where was George W. Bush at the times in question and what was he doing?''

The article also misidentified the position held by Mr. Bush's father in the early 1970's. (That error also occurred on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday in articles about the memos.) The elder Mr. Bush was ambassador to the United Nations from 1971 to January 1973, and chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1973 to 1974. He was no longer a Texas congressman. (Go to Sept. 15 Article),

An article on Tuesday about the dispute over memos relating to President Bush's National Guard service misidentified the setting in which Bill Glennon, an I.B.M. typewriter specialist, examined them. He viewed copies on his computer at home, not at CBS.

[expatpat]

Rather, we can assume, badly wanted the career-capping story.

Well, he certainly got one!

[OkiMusashi]

"Your Honor, had my client's Grandfather written a Will, it would not have left anything to his other Grandchildren. In fact, I have a copy of his Will that my client has reconstructed to show his Grandfather's intended distribution of his estate. I ask that this reconstruction be entered as evidence....."

[ancient_geezer]

And we're "partisan political operatives in pajamas?"

Pajamas? What pajamas?