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CBS Statement On Bush Memos
CBS News ^ | 9/20/2004 | CBS News

Posted on 09/20/2004 10:01:52 AM PDT by rwilliam

(CBS) Below is the text of the CBS News statement on its use of documents purportedly written by President Bush's National Guard commander:

Bill Burkett, in a weekend interview with CBS News Anchor and Correspondent Dan Rather, has acknowledged that he provided the now-disputed documents used in the Sept. 8 "60 Minutes Wednesday" report on President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard.

Burkett, a retired National Guard lieutenant colonel, also admits that he deliberately misled the CBS News producer working on the report, giving her a false account of the documents’ origins to protect a promise of confidentiality to the actual source.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; forgery; killian; napalminthemorning; rather; rathergate
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To: Grampa Dave; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; devolve; potlatch; Smartass; F15Eagle
True, they are two separate organizations (ANG/AG). But in the minds of civilians, there is no differentiation.

Criminal liablity is the next phase. Burkett has undergone psychological treatment before for a nervous breakdown.

Plus, CBS might use him as the fall guy with an added bonus later (if he doesn't squeal).

101 posted on 09/20/2004 11:22:20 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (46 days until November 2nd)
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To: rwilliam

Just more C-ontinual B-S!


102 posted on 09/20/2004 11:23:31 AM PDT by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: pabianice
Burkett will be linked to Kerry within 10 days hours. This is the the 21st century. This is the 'net and *this* is FR.
103 posted on 09/20/2004 11:25:33 AM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: Kennard

Would Cleland be that dumb ? Maybe that he's no longer officially in politics, he thought he could get away with it.

But I dunno, I wonder if Burkett cooked all this up with his lawyer.


104 posted on 09/20/2004 11:43:04 AM PDT by somerville
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To: Grampa Dave

CBS is still trying to do their spin.


105 posted on 09/20/2004 11:50:18 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Liz

Typical elite liberal criminals. They only apologize for getting caught.

They never apologize for what they did and the potential damage of their lies/forgeries/actions.


106 posted on 09/20/2004 11:54:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop lying to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Saddam is doing the same damn thing:

‘Distraught’ Saddam begging for mercy, Iraqi PM says ..Saddam claims he meant no harm.”

107 posted on 09/20/2004 12:13:19 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Before this election, moi Kerri will be begging for mercy from the truth about him being exposed on a daily basis.


108 posted on 09/20/2004 12:18:32 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop lying to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Typical elite liberal criminals. They never apologize for what they did and the potential damage of their lies/forgeries/actions.

The Clinton Legacy continues.

109 posted on 09/20/2004 12:27:00 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Grampa Dave; Happy2BMe; Calpernia; Cindy; Conspiracy Guy; Mudboy Slim; martin_fierro; MeekOneGOP; ..
Burkett, a retired National Guard lieutenant colonel, also admits that he deliberately misled the CBS News producer working on the report, giving her a false account of the documents’ origins to protect a promise of confidentiality to the actual source.

Actual source?

And just who might that be, pray tell?

110 posted on 09/20/2004 12:32:29 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Burkett is a serial Ratheriar.


111 posted on 09/20/2004 12:37:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop Rathering to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: okiegop

Yes, our President deserves an on air apology from Rather, Mapes, Burkett, Barnes, heads of CBS but he also deserves the truth, as we do. We are owed the truth they conspired with the DNC to help Kerry win the election.

This non-apology is a joke. It ain't over CBS.


112 posted on 09/20/2004 12:38:41 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: Darkwolf377
So, Dan, did you LIE, like your crowd claim Bush did...or were you MISLED...like Bush was?

great post ! do I hear a version of Instant Karma playing somewhere ?

113 posted on 09/20/2004 12:40:57 PM PDT by Searching4Justice
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To: Grampa Dave

This is gonna be interesting to trace the fake documents from Burkett backward.


114 posted on 09/20/2004 12:42:24 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

"This is gonna be interesting to trace the fake documents from Burkett backward."

We know that ABCNNBC BS and the NY Slimes, Washington Compost, LA Slimes, Chicago Tribune will really investigate who beside Burkett were involved in this forgery.


115 posted on 09/20/2004 12:46:33 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop Rathering to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: Searching4Justice
"do I hear a version of Instant Karma playing somewhere ?"

I think it's hilarious that Dan is tapdancing away, not coming out and admitting the truth, but being so very Nixonian about this incredible LIE. As a talk radio host here in Boston points out, the forgery is the equivalent of a cop planting a gun on a suspect--"It doesn't matter if the evidence is fault, you KNOW he's guilty of something, let's talk about that."

That the Left aren't decrying this shows how utterly bankrupt they are. They're also in denial--the sham that the MSM are somehow MAINSTREAM and not liberal has come undone.

And it's all because they hate GWBush.

116 posted on 09/20/2004 12:46:59 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: Darkwolf377

donchaknow the document shredders are running FULL-BORE at the dnc and at cbs even as we speak.


117 posted on 09/20/2004 12:51:38 PM PDT by lonster
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To: Grampa Dave
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. John Swinton, the Chief of Staff for the New York Times, 1953.
118 posted on 09/20/2004 1:03:46 PM PDT by Liz
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To: rwilliam

Check out the RNC response and discussion at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221577/posts


119 posted on 09/20/2004 1:05:06 PM PDT by rwilliam
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To: Liz

"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. John Swinton, the Chief of Staff for the New York Times, 1953."

Nothing has changed with one exception. The limo/Gulf Stream elites who own and control the MSM, now own and control the Rat party. They determine who the rat candidates are. Then, they keep them in office or dispose of them.


120 posted on 09/20/2004 1:23:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop Rathering to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
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