Just as I suggested..the documents were fake...just decided to let folk know
PS - Had this been FOX news..people would be up in arms saying the President needed to be impeached..
WASHINGTON - CBS News and its venerable anchor Dan Rather have suffered a major blow to their credibility, admitting they were duped by the source of a story purporting to show George W. Bush was given favoured treatment in avoiding the Vietnam War in the 1970s.
Rather apologized to viewers last night on his network newscast after airing an interview with the source, West Texas rancher Bill Burkett, a former Guard officer with a history of trying to discredit Bush.
Burkett admitted he lied to CBS about the origin of documents, which were said to have been written by the young Bush's unit commander, Lt.-Col. Jerry Killian.
"The failure to properly scrutinize the documents and its source led to our airing the documents when we should not have done so," Rather said.
"I want to say personally and directly, I'm sorry.
"This was an error made in good faith as we tried to carry on the CBS News tradition of asking tough questions and investigative reports. But it was a mistake."
The original report, which aired Sept. 8, relied on four memos the network said it had obtained showing Killian felt under pressure to "sugar coat" the young pilot's military record, and that Bush had refused an order to take a physical exam.
In a statement from CBS earlier in the day, the network that pioneered the television newsmagazine did not concede the documents were forgeries, as alleged by a number of experts and Killian's former secretary.
"Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report," said CBS News president Andrew Heyward.
"We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...d=968332188854