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.
CBS DOCUMENT 'SOURCE' COMPARED BUSH TO HITLER
http://www.drudgereport.com/
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WED., SEPT 15, 2004
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Just darn!
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.
great find, bump
They have realized that the Word documents won't fly, so they are redoing other fake documents with typewriters.
They have realized that the Word documents won't fly, so they are redoing other fake documents with typewriters.
CBS was obviously planning to release the forgeries a few at a time through the election. We should see them all NOW so that we can see what the full plot was.
One can determine the age of a document too. If any more documents come forward, they need to be studied. It's obvious you can't trust these people with these mysterious documents.
"What else is CBS not telling us?"
The possibilities boggle the mind....
bump
Can we sue CBS und the freedom of information act to get any other documents they may be hiding?
ping.
From yesterday, The Whitehouse acknowledged the existence of other documents, and hinted that they had seen them. Did CBS dump all their documents on the Whitehouse?
They probably planned to dribble out new forgeries every week. But Buckhead shut them down.
Many seem to be assuming that the "lots more documents" have yet to be released.
It's possible that some are, as yet unreleased documents, but I think many of the documents may be the actual documents about Bush from DOD.
Maybe SeeBS gave Pierce the six forged documents (4 released by CBS and 2 additional later released by USA Today) and a large batch of known authentic documents released by the Pentagon.
My theory is that Pierce was to compare the two types of documents for consistancy.
Two possibilities under this theory.
(1) Pierce never completed a detailed comparison of Kinko documents to the batch of real documents. CBS jumped the gun citing him as an authenticator when he had not authenticated the Kinko documents. (This possibility is consistant with the story "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.")
OR
(2) Pierce gave a final OK to CBS on the documents, but he is trying to avoid having his professional reputation dragged down with CBS' and Rather's reputations. This scenario seems unlikely to me, but CBS will probably try to pin Pierce as one of the fall guys.