Posted on 09/17/2004 6:51:54 AM PDT by Mike Fieschko
Just exchanged emails with Garry Moon, columnist for the Athens, Ga. Banner-Herald. He shared a stunning bit of news with me, and said he wanted Kerry Spot readers to know, since he doesnt know when his column is going to run in the Banner-Herald. Moon managed to contact James J. Pierce, the fourth expert that CBS has cited as one of its experts verifying its documents.
(I asked who is James Pierce? yesterday. In light of Moons news, maybe I was a little harsh on the guy.)
Moon writes:
I called Pierce at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday night. I told him I was with the Athens Banner-Herald newspaper, doing a piece about the Killian memos. He asked me how I got his home phone number, and I told him. I thought he might hang up, but he stayed on the line... maybe because I was upfront with him and not aggressive in asking him questions. He said he couldn't give me many details about his analysis of the documents that CBS gave him because he was still in the middle of studying them. More on that to come...
[snip]
- The key point: Pierce seemed upset that CBS is using his Professional Opinion memo of 9/14 to prop up their defense about the Killian memos being authentic. Pierce said CBS is wrong, CBS is wrong to portray it that way, saying it twice for emphasis. He said that his PO memo was only a preliminary judgment, not a final conclusion on all the documents.
- The (for me) stunner: Pierce said that the reason he hadn't rendered a final conclusion yet was that he was only midway through his analysis of all the documents - speaking as though there were many docs. CBS gave you other documents besides the four that 60 Minutes used in the story? Lots more documents were his exact words.
So it seems like CBS News is - again - misrepresenting what their own experts have told them about the Killian documents. Indeed, given that lots of documents are involved, who knows whether the documents that he referred to in his PO actually concerned the four that 60 Minutes used in the story
First thought: Good job, Garry.
Second thought: Just what the heck are these other documents that CBS gave him? Was CBS planning a second follow-up story, using more documents from their source?
What else is CBS not telling us?
They are assessing the fallout. They want to make sure the next wave of forgeries is more believable.
National Review does not require excerpting. Please post the whole article.
This is a blog post. I think that is the whole article.
CBS DOCUMENT 'SOURCE' COMPARED BUSH TO HITLER
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Sounds like an interview with another useful idiot.
Then they would have released them already. More likely CBS had a pile of docs that they knew were crap. They picked the best looking ones and ran with them. The others are probably drawn with crayon.
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Just darn!
Better forgeries.
YUP!!! Be vigilant......I still think something is up folks.
Bob Tuke's name keeps showing up in this mess, also.
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:vgURDwVnVcIJ:timblair.spleenville.com/archives/007485.php+burkett,tuke&hl=en
This explains a lot about post-fraud-exposure behavior by Rather. This was never planned by CBS as a single story. This was the fake. The real punch is still coming. That's why Rather is so insistent that Bush answer the charges. He thinks he has something that will make Bush look like a liar. But he needs to get Bush to take a position first. Wisely, it looks like Bush is going to make Dan play his hand first.
No credibility.
Now, CBS could present a sworn statement signed by G-d himself (and they probobly will eventually) and no one will trust it or believe it.
Rather, and CBS News are done.
Go ahead and excerpt from places like NRO and MarkSteyn.com, etc... Why not give them the traffic? It's the least we can do for their free service.
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