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 ...
We will continue to work tirelessly to be worthy of that trust.”
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Screw you CBS, along with the DNC, and the horses you rode in on...You Communist BASTARDS.
Priest-penitent privilege, physician-patient privilege, attorney-client privilege.....
There actually is no journalist-source privilege.
Now we have a source-subsource privilege being asserted?
Substance aside, I am so tired of having my intelligence insulted.
CBS IF FULL OF CBS
So, instead of making Rather and Mapes walk the plank, CBS is making Burkett the fall guy.
"'60 Minutes Wednesday' had full confidence in the original report or it would not have aired. However, in the wake of serious and disturbing questions that came up after the broadcast, CBS News has done extensive additional reporting in an effort to confirm the documents’ authenticity...."
This is reporting that it should have done BEFORE it aired the report. Of course, I don't know how they can take credit for breaking the story that the documents were fake. They were the last to figure that out.
"That included an interview featured on last week’s edition of "60 Minutes Wednesday" with Marian Carr Knox, secretary to the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, the officer named as the author of the documents; the interview with Bill Burkett to be seen tonight; and a further review of the forensic evidence on both sides of the debate."
Isn't there a football game on tonight? Can't see myself watching "both sides" of this "debate." I've already seen enough, and made up my mind.
"CBS News and CBS management are commissioning an independent review of the process by which the report was prepared and broadcast to help determine what actions need to be taken. The names of the people conducting the review will be announced shortly, and their findings will be made public."
Independent? How much you want to bet?
Let's see. You made a mistake. You discovered the mistake. You fessed up to it immediately. I hope you're not hoping for a job with CBS news in the near future.
Translation=CBS news knows but doesn't release. Notice the wording. They know who it is, they just haven't verified it yet. Supposistion = what if the source was Cleland and the calls were from Cleland to Burket not the other way around. What if the DNC/Cleland produced them and looked for a patsy to shop them ?
Provocative.
Or, to protect his own backside ass the creator of the forgeries.
I just heard that hte Cleland angle has no legs.....
ohhhhh thats gona leave a mark!
I posted this in a different thread:
---There were earlier reports of these documents floating around the DNC as early as April, and that it was decided to pass them on to the Kerry campaign. The Kerry campaign might then have decided to save them for a possible October surprise.
In August however, the Kerry campaign was reeling from the Swift Boat attacks and is falling in the polls. They desperately needed to change the subject. Through, possibly the Democratic Party in Texas, they make these documents available to Burkett, making him think he's discovered something big. He tries contacting the Kerry campaign and they put him on to Cleland, who pongs him back to the Kerry campaign.
Now the documents have been laundered and the Kerry campaign coordinates with CBS for the 60 Minutes spot and the DNC for operation Fortunate Son.
Burkett is just a pawn in their game.---
We need to call !!!!!!!!!
I really wish I didn't laugh at your comment.
I wonder if we'll see Cleland out stumping for Kerry anymore.
So, Dan, did you LIE, like your crowd claim Bush did...or were you MISLED...like Bush was?
I will be interested to hear (won't watch) whether Burkett admits in his interview that he deliberately misled CBS, as claimed by CBS. My guess is that he won't.
I might be, I hear they're going to have an opening soon... }:o)
Bet Rush isn't on that "independent review." Bet anyone associated with the folks who are owed an apology aren't on it -- the Killian family, the Bush Family, George W. Bush, all the experts ignored, all the bloggers called 'partisan.'
Burkett claims to be protecting a source....what, is he now a 'journalist'? He gets to defame someone, and he has immunity?
I'm sick of the MSM. They lie and they do not the truth.
CBS committed fraud in an attempt to influence a presidential election within 60 days of that election, nothing less. Everybody involved should be immediately fired and CBS should be accepting full responsibility instead of hiding behind shadowing stories of being "misled" and "making a mistake". Mistake hell, they committed a crime using forged documents!
The best part is now there are questions on if and when Kerry received an honorable discharge.
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