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Jay Currie

One Damn Thing After Another

9/20/2004

You mean it wasn't typed on a Composer

CBS News today apologized for the "60 Minutes" story charging that President Bush had received favorable treatment in the Texas Air National Guard and said its source for the story was Bill Burkett, a retired National Guard lieutenant colonel who has urged Democrats to wage "war" against Republican "dirty tricks."

"We made a mistake in judgment and for that I am sorry," anchor Dan Rather said in a statement..."After extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically," he said. "I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers. That, combined with some of the questions that have been raised in public and in the press, leads me to a point where -- if I knew then what I know now -- I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question."
washington post
CBS is blaming ex-National Guardsman and noted Bush hater Bill Burkett for misleading them.

Yeah, right,