[kellynla]

BTTT
don't cha think posting just a link would have been better? LOL
so what's the bottom line?
are they holding to the Blather line that "they were misled but the story is legit?" LOL

[peyton randolph]

Can't conclude political bias was involved? What a white wash.

[OXENinFLA]

The attacks on the September 8 Segment began virtually immediately. One of the first came on freerepublic.com, a website:

[Colonel_Flagg]

Thanks for the post. Bookmarking for later reading. I wonder if there's a pdf link to this somewhere?

[Always Right]

The Panel has not been able to conclude with absolute certainty whether the Killian documents are authentic or forgeries.

Yeah, and we can't say with absolute certainty that 2+2=4.....

[LoneGOPinCT]

The Panel has not been able to conclude with absolute certainty whether the Killian documents are authentic or forgeries.

This sentence says it all. CYA.

[Lou L]

CBS News should establish a protocol for stories that require authentication of any materials, including documents, videotapes, recordings, and photographs. Such a protocol could identify experts, vetted in advance, who might be called on to assist with authentication.

Removed from original report:

"If initial authentication proves said materials are shoddily produced and couldn't stand up to Internet bloggers and those damn "Freepers," said materials should be forged improved upon until they can pass the smell test."

[Just mythoughts]

Wonder what this load of whitewash cost seeBS? How much did the republican judge earn?

[Jenya]

I'll read it, I promise, but can someone bottom line this for me?

[DoughtyOne]

I thought this was supposed to be an investigation of Rather, not Bush.

LOL, this is some pretty amazing 'STUFF'.

Were Rather's sources bonified? Where their documents real? Did Rather exercise due dilligence?

The answers to these questions DO NOT require the Bush record to be investigated, or aired.

If every accusation regarding Bush by Rather's story were true, it still would be unsupportable if the documents didn't validate that. Therefore the documents and sources should be the fucus here, not the Bush record.

[FreedomPoster]

Someone needs to post that cool SeeBS animated *.gif to this thread.

[BluH2o]

>I>The Panel has not been able to conclude with absolute certainty whether the Killian documents are authentic or not

Well folks ... how about starting with the PO Box on the memo header ... P.O. Box 23456? Get a clue ...

[demlosers]

Your famous thread made the report: :)

-snip-

The attacks on the September 8 Segment began virtually immediately. One of the first came on freerepublic.com, a website:...

[TheyConvictedOglethorpe]

The money shot:

"Behind all of the Aftermath’s missteps lay the fierce conviction of some at CBS News that the story was true and there was a refusal by some to consider that it might be false."

[Catphish]

Despite the fact that they can't seem to bring themselves to say within a metaphysical certainty that the documents are fakes the report is pretty devestating. It seems that Rather was completly lost in space and was acting as a mouthpiece. For that at least, Rather should lose his job.

[bkwells]

ping for later read.

[TomGuy]

Letter to CBS Employees - results of Investigation
	Posted by ChicagoRighty

[hellinahandcart]

Holy crapola, this is long. Must read later.

[sully777]

Rather Mapes CBS Moveon.org Burkett and that fellow from Georgia openly conspire (breaking laws pre/post- CFR) to destroy the character of a sitting wartime President with false reports

...but in more IMPORTANT news, Armstrong Williams says education vouchers are great for poor black families. Oh yeah, he was alledgedly coached and paid by the GOP to push this EVIL agenda that would free blacks from "education share cropping." Williams regrets his actions, has lost Tribune Radio, and the MSM is jumping on the story as a new Watergate scandal that could possibly topple Bush.

Just another whacky day in Ratherland.

[Graymatter]

H. Political Agenda ...

... Panel cannot conclude that a political agenda at 60 Minutes Wednesday drove either the timing of the airing of the Segment or its content.