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To: jhouston
What a bizarre story. Full of exquisite details and full of holes you could drive a SUV through.

The story closes with CBS maintaining that noone has questioned the story, just the documents. The Post fails to mention Staudt and the Killian family's denying the truth of the story.

Lots of details on Burkett, but no mention that he was in the Army Guard, just that he was in the "Guard." An essential point considering that one of the problems with the memos is their usage of Army lingo in some places.

There are also a few questions not raised in this article. Will CBS reveal their source for the documents if CBS recognizes they are fraudulent? Will anyone at CBS be held accountable? Will anyone at CBS be fired? Was there any contact between CBS and high ranking Kerry campaign or DNC officials? Did CBS pay for the documents? Why do the documents given to the analysts have a Abilene, Texas Kinko's timestamp on them when Rather and Mapes met with the source? If Rather and Mapes met with the source, how come Rather said (another point not in the article) that CBS only had copies of the documents?

Finally, there is no mention of the long awaited statement by Andrew Heyward and why it took so long to release, nor of CBS' own CYA memo and in-house Rather interview sent to their affiliates.

87 posted on 09/18/2004 8:38:01 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

One other thing: No mention of Van Os.


109 posted on 09/18/2004 8:58:01 PM PDT by kristinn
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