I am sure that CBS will allow other experts to examine the documents their non experts examined. But of course it is all moot, because even if the documents were forged, they reflected what Dan Rather's sources said was on Killian's mind at the time, well maybe not what was on his mind, but "consistent" with something or other. The message from CBS is that it is time to move on from the documents, and just look at Bush's guard record again, for maybe the 5th time or so.
Exactly. Why should important people like Dan get bogged down in petty matters of 'facts' or 'evidence' when we could be spending this time talking about the feelings of people who don't like President Bush?
Make that..."for maybe the 5th time or so".
They will move on because 1. Hurricane 2. Sept. 11 anniversary. After that, everyone will forget the issue or remember the wrong half of it.
VERY good! I think you have a real grasp of the situation!
Who is CBS to say this was Killian's mindset?
Without the docs to back CBS up what REAL proof do they have to say that???
The fact is that CBS/Rather rested this entire NG story on these docs and now that the docs are forged means their story is FINISHED! They can go on and on about "the story is what is important, not the docs" But without the docs there is no story...don't they get it.
Except the person that said that says that is not what he said. CBS lied to him (said the notes were handwritten) and distorted what he said (he said if that is what he wrote, that is what he thought).