Posted on 09/10/2004 8:03:05 PM PDT by jhouston
Is she a lawyer ..??
Right on. Unlike CBS, bloggers are far too undisciplined and partisan to check out sources thoroughly before they release impeccably vetted documents to the world.
Law enforcement agencies and federal "blue ribbon panels" (think: Vince Foster) and in this case CBS always need to be able to use hack "experts" who can be trusted to bend their "expert" opinion like a pretzel. It's not more complicated than that.
In the interview, Rather said the controversy should not detract from these questions raised by the program: "Did a wealthy oilman who was a friend of the Bush family come to the speaker of the Texas House and ask for preferential treatment for George Bush, and did he get it? Did or did not then-Lieutenant Bush refuse to obey a direct order from a military superior?"
In 1999, "60 Minutes" apologized, as part of a legal settlement with a Customs Service official, for reporting on a memo that was later found to be fake.
Matley, who told Rather last night that he knew the Bush documents would be professional "dynamite," has been involved in high-profile cases, including a 1997 controversy over purported John F. Kennedy documents. After "60 Minutes" cast doubt on those documents, the man who unearthed them, Lawrence Cusack III, retained Matley in a suit against CBS that was rejected in court. Matley could not vouch for the documents' authenticity.
I just looked up 77034 and the zip seems to be alive and well...http://houston.areaconnect.com/zip2.htm?city=Houston&qs=TX&searchtype=bycity
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