Posted on 02/22/2005 3:36:35 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Edited on 02/22/2005 3:39:32 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
If CBS CEO Leslie Moonves had hoped the investigation by an independent panel into the network's botched "60 Minutes Wednesday" feature regarding President Bush's National Guard duty would be enough to put the controversy behind the media giant, recent days have brought him unsettling developments. Five weeks after the panel issued its 224-page report; those it singled out for wrongdoing are fighting back -- taking issue with the investigation as well as the Viacom-owned network. The new rumblings suggest that the sour taste of CBS's National Guard story may linger for months to come. And it will almost certainly remain beyond the network's planned farewell next month for longtime anchor Dan Rather, who was the on-camera reporter for the story.
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Looks like burkett has a new obsession. CBS! HEHEHEHE
I like that part.
LVM
Oh wait, I forgot, it was dems who done the deed - no problem
A key player in the Dan Rather Memogate saga sends a letter to CBS, charging that its independent investigation destroyed his reputation and ignored the network's own culpability
Earlier this month, Bill Burkett, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Texas National Guard and the man who provided CBS producers with the controversial documents at the heart of the "60 Minutes Wednesday" segment, fired off his response to the panel's investigation. In a 2,600-word letter, obtained by Salon, Burkett charged that the report, through inaccuracies and "selective recall" among the key players, "exacerbated the defamation of character that CBS obviously committed when they laid the blame for the collapse of this story at my feet." The center of Burkett's claim is that in giving CBS the documents, he expected the network to authenticate them and, in fact, had made a "contingent" agreement with the network to do so. Burkett says he assumed the documents he gave CBS were real, but that he could not and would not vouch for their genuineness. At the same time, Burkett has told inconsistent stories about how the memos fell into his hands.
Note to all you DU lurkers: Was Lucy Ramirez, in fact, JEFF GANNON?.
Isn't this the moron who kids wrote a sob letter and called FReepers "terrorists"?
According to Burkett, George Conn gave him the documents.
He must not have gotten the memo about blaming it all on Karl Rove.
He got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and now claims innocence.
Byte me, Bill B. Got a little too close to the fire, didn't ya. Ha Ha.
Oh, and that mysterious Spanish speaking woman....
LVM
Sheesh!
Karl Rove is everywhere!
I don't recall the word 'terrorist'(they probably did), but yes, his kid's were doing a first rate 'Rat power whine.
LVM
Burkett's new angle is that it was up to CBS to authenticate the documents, and that he bears *absolutely* no responsibility for them.
Per that logic, it should be 100% up to WorldnetDaily and NewsMax to authenticate every conspiracy that gets emailed to them, and that said emailers bear no burden of proof on their own.
No doubt Burkett has documents to prove his agreement with CBS, right?
Maybe...but there may be a font/typeface problem.
I'm sure people will be able to tell that they are written with crayons.
BWAHAHAHA! I can't stop laughing!
The center of Burkett's claim is that in giving CBS the documents, he expected the network to authenticate them and, in fact, had made a "contingent" agreement with the network to do so.
LOL! Did CBS fax the contingent agreement to him from a Kinkos?
If he expected CBS to authenticale the documents, why did he make xeroxes and destroy the originals??
Why didn't he know how to contact the person who gave him the letters?
"George Conn"
Who's that?
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