It appears now that CBS News knew beforehand that documents it used were forgeries before it went ahead with the broadcast of "60 Minutes".<br /><br />I thought Rather, CBS and Viacom were guilty of trying to hide a mistake before, but now I believe there was a more sinister motive.<br /><br />As an American, who values greatly a free press, I am really angry about this now.<br /><br />This from ABC News, not exactly a right-wing organization.<br /><br />"Emily Will, a veteran document examiner from North Carolina, told ABC News she saw problems right away with the one document CBS hired her to check the weekend before the broadcast. <br />"I found five significant differences in the questioned handwriting, and I found problems with the printing itself as to whether it could have been produced by a typewriter," she said. <br /><br />Will says she sent the CBS producer an e-mail message about her concerns and strongly urged the network the night before the broadcast not to use the documents. <br /><br />"I told them that all the questions I was asking them on Tuesday night, they were going to be asked by hundreds of other document examiners on Thursday if they ran that story," Will said. <br /><br />But the documents became a key part of the 60 Minutes II broadcast questioning President Bush's National Guard service in 1972. CBS made no mention that any expert disputed the authenticity. <br /><br />"I did not feel that they wanted to investigate it very deeply," Will told ABC News...<br /><br />A second document examiner hired by CBS News, Linda James of Plano, Texas, also told ABC News she had concerns about the documents and could not authenticate them. <br /><br />"I did not authenticate anything and I don't want it to be misunderstood that I did," James said. "And that's why I have come forth to talk about it because I don't want anybody to think I did authenticate these documents." <br /><br />A third examiner hired by CBS for its story, Marcel Matley, appeared on CBS Evening News last Friday and was described as saying the document was real. <br /><br />According to The Washington Post, Matley said he examined only the signature attributed to Killian and made no attempt to authenticate the documents themselves."<br /><br />Jinx
Just fair and balanced. (not) CBS and Dan Rather are not journalists they are propogandists. These clowns don't understand why Fox is eating their and their buddies lunch, Duh!<br /><br />First step own up, second step Bye Bye Dan, and as much as I would like to know who provided these doc's, they should not reveal their source. The most important thing to a news outlet is their integrity and CBS has none as long as Dan stays there. Pay the bucks to bring in Roger Ailes or Mort Zuckerman and start from scratch, cuz at this time all is lost at CBS. Or don't; it just diminishes the mainstream, old guard liberal press. This faux paus will take years to recover from. Bummer - not really
