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.............Rather and 60 Minutes relied on memos said to reflect the contemporaneous thoughts of Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian of the Air National Guard. In one, apparently from May 1972, Killian recounts rebuking then-Lieutenant Bush for wanting to get out of his service requirements to work on the Alabama political campaign of a friend of his father. Another, from August of that year, seems to show that Bush had been suspended from flight status because he failed to meet requirements and refused to undergo a required annual flight examination. A third memo also suggested pressure from Col. Walter "Buck" Staudt...

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His credibility under attack, CBS News anchor Dan Rather on Monday again stood by his report raising questions about President Bush's military service during the Vietnam War era. Amid the controversy, Bush travels today to Las Vegas to address the National Guard Association, made up of 45,000 members and veterans of the branch in which he served. Rather devoted more than three minutes of his "Evening News" broadcast Monday to defending the documents he used in a "60 Minutes II" report last week that concluded Bush received preferential treatment in the Texas Air National Guard. A draft of the president's...

THE FOLLOWING IS A STATEMENT ISSUED BY CBS NEWS: For the record, CBS News stands by the thoroughness and accuracy of the 60 MINUTES report this Wednesday on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. This report was not based solely on recovered documents, but rather on a preponderance of evidence, including documents that were provided by unimpeachable sources, interviews with former Texas National Guard officials and individuals who worked closely back in the early 1970s with Colonel Jerry Killian and were well acquainted with his procedures, his character and his thinking. In addition, the documents are backed...

CBS incredibly, as if the entire news staff has turned into defiant, petulant two year olds, has once again aired a story on the CBS Evening News that refers to the disputed memos first reported on in Wednesday's broadcast of 60 Minutes and since widely believed to be forgeries. In a segment about President Bush speaking before an Air National Guard audience, CBS news superimposed a graphic of the very memos in question and stated that President Bush still hasn't addressed the charges brought in light of the recently "discovered" memos. They also explicitly stated that CBS News stands by...