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Ronnie Raygun
Sep 15th, 2004, 07:41 AM
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2004/09/15/news/local/3b3859154e504db286256f10001702ba.txt

Schieffer: CBS needs to prove memos on Bush were authentic
By Dave Dreeszen, Journal business editor



CBS News' Bob Schieffer said Tuesday he hopes the network does more reporting to definitively prove the authenticity of memos 60 Minutes II received about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard.

"I think we have to find some way to show our viewers they are not forgeries,'' Schieffer, CBS' chief Washington correspondent and host of the network's "Face the Nation,'' said at a news conference in Sioux City. "I don't know how we're going to do that without violating the confidentiality of sources.''

Schieffer was responding to a 60 Minutes II report last week that referenced memos allegedly written by Bush's former squadron commander, the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. The typed memos were part of anchor Dan Rather's investigation that asserted Bush benefited from political favoritism in getting into the Air National Guard.


But there has been growing evidence that the documents are forgeries, with national news organizations citing dozens of inconsistencies, ranging from different word-processing techniques to conflicting military terminology.

CBS has stood by its story, with Rather saying there is "no definitive evidence'' that has emeged to prove the documents are fake.

"He is very confident of his sources,'' said Schieffer, who has talked to Rather daily during the flap. "He says he is absolutely convinced these documents are real.''

CBS, which has declined to reveal the source of the memos, has pointed to its own experts who have verified that documents could have been produced on typewriters of the 1970s. But the Washington Post reported Tuesday that the lead expert CBS retained said he examined only Killian's signature and made no attempt to authenticate the documents themselves.

Casting further doubt on the documents, the Dallas Morning News reported Saturday that the officer named in a memo as exerting pressure to "sugar coat'' Bush's record had retired from the Texas Air National Guard 1.5 years before the memo was dated. Killian's widow and son also have told reporters that they doubt he wrote the memos, they did not come from his personal possessions and that he admired Bush while in served in the Air National Guard.

Though Schieffer discounted suggestions that Rather received fraudulent documents, he acknowledged the source could have been a Bush opponent.

"People ask me, 'Do I think somebody was trying to set up Dan Rather?' I say, "No that's completely out of the question,'' said Schieffer, who addressed the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce's annual dinner/meeting Tuesday night. "Would somebody do this in an effort to smear George Bush? That may be so. We're in the middle of a political campaign, and this would not be the first campaign where somebody on one side slipped something to a reporter because he feels it would hurt the guy on the other side.''

Dave Dreeszen can be reached at (712) 293-4211 or davedreeszen@siouxcityjournal.com

Anonymous
Sep 15th, 2004, 08:10 AM
I'll be the first to admit this topic needed several threads.

mburbank
Sep 15th, 2004, 10:37 AM
Does this many threads mean Nalds is 'gizzing'?

Ronnie Raygun
Sep 15th, 2004, 11:00 AM
I just kicking the chair from under you argument.

Zhukov
Sep 15th, 2004, 11:04 AM
If your avatar is a joke, and your last sentence was a Vince refrence, then you are funnier than I thought :lol

Anonymous
Sep 15th, 2004, 11:05 AM
Quick! Somebody respond with 12 threads of unbased speculation as to what brands of cereal CBS executives may or may not be eating! IT IS OUR ONLY HOPE TO RESUME THE GIZZING!

Ronnie Raygun
Sep 15th, 2004, 11:26 AM
You know that doesn't relate to anything....

Anonymous
Sep 15th, 2004, 11:35 AM
Anchor on news program says he hopes people look into an article they aired. Businessmen decide between Boo Berry and Count Chocula for their morning nutrition this halloween. Edsel successfully herds ducks across country road for 63rd week in row.

I can barely keep up with all this sensational news.

FS
Sep 15th, 2004, 12:15 PM
Would trying to post so many new topics about this incident qualify as 'panicking' over it?

mburbank
Sep 15th, 2004, 02:55 PM
You didn't kick the chair out, it slipped on all your gizz.

mburbank
Sep 20th, 2004, 02:55 PM
Will this be the thread naldo posts todays (9/20) confirmation that the CBS documents are fake?