Statement from CBS- Interview with Lt Col Burkett tonight

[DoYouEverWonder]

CBS claimed a source had misled the network on the documents' origins.

In a statement, CBS said former Texas Guard official Bill Burkett "has acknowledged that he provided the now-disputed documents" and "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."

The network did not say the memoranda ? purportedly written by one of Mr. Bush's National Guard commanders ? were forgeries. But the network did say it could not authenticate the documents and that it should not have reported them.

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Additional reporting on the documents will air on Monday's CBS Evening News, including the interview of Burkett by Rather. CBS News pledged "an independent review of the process by which the report was prepared and broadcast to help determine what actions need to be taken."


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/06/politics/main641481.shtml

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. I believe he recreated the docs from '72

and Knox statements support that. Be interesting to hear from Burkett personally.

[flpoljunkie]

2. And who is the source he is protecting?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Himself.

I don't think he wants to go to jail.

[rocktivity]

4. The fat lady has yet to enter the building

Something's still not right. Why is Burkett going on TV and baring his soul like this? And how DID the papers end up in the White House? Is Dan's ulterior motive to show that Burkett duped the White House, too? Is he going to prove that he got the papers from a White House source? Dan's been around too long for fall for something so obvious--he's still got a card or two up his sleeve. This ain't over yet!

:headbang:
rocknation


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[Kadie]

5. I agree.

This ain't over.

Put on your seat belts folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride!

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Yep, otherwise why put Burkett on TV?

Maybe Dan can interview MacDougald too. And then we can see who is more credible.

A career Military Veteran or a freeper lawyer, who suddenly became a typewriter expert?

[Wind Dancer]

7. Sure wish the "so-called" CIA memos

re: the Iraqi invasion had been investigated like Dan Rather's forged documents.

This is disgusting and so Rovish.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Yes, the networks could care less that Bu$h used forgeries

in the SOTU and to make his case for invading Iraq. But if Dan Rather doesn't dot his i's and cross his t's is much more important and earth shattering.