[Criminal Number 18F]

This is not to say that Schieffer himself is not a decent guy or a professional, nor it is to suggest that he personally had any role in the National Guard story.

Schieffer has defended the forgeries in public:

CBS News' Bob Schieffer said Tuesday he hopes the network does more reporting to definitively prove the authenticity of memos 60 Minutes II received about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard.

"I think we have to find some way to show our viewers they are not forgeries,'' Schieffer, CBS' chief Washington correspondent and host of the network's "Face the Nation,'' said at a news conference in Sioux City. "I don't know how we're going to do that without violating the confidentiality of sources.''

Source: Sioux City (IA) Journal - Hat tip: Drudge.

So, I would go further. I would say that Schieffer too has lashed himself to the foremast and is off to feed the fishes.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Schieffer is a Democrat Party shill from way, way back. How he represents anything good in journalism is a mystery to me.