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shawa · CNO Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 2004

Ho Hum, Do you really think anything will ever come of
this "investigation"??

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/11/11/entertainment1515EST0634.DTL

CBS STILL AWAITING REPORT ON HOW ITS NATIONAL GUARD STORY
WENT WRONG

Thursday, November 11, 2004

11-11) 12:15 PST NEW YORK (AP) --

CBS News is still awaiting the conclusion of the independent investigation into its discredited "60 Minutes Wednesday" report on President Bush's National Guard service, a network spokeswoman said Thursday.

The network asked former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi, who retired last year as president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press, to examine how the network aired a story it later said it could not vouch for.

"The panel is hard at work and the report will be ready when the panel tells us it's ready," said Sandy Genelius, CBS News spokeswoman.

Panel members have not publicly discussed their work, including their target date for completion. But they have interviewed several people at CBS News already in piecing together what happened.

The report is expected to go to CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves, and its findings could affect the futures of news division President Andrew Heyward and anchorman Dan Rather, who reported the story.

The panel has insisted that its report be made public after it is submitted to CBS.

The CBS report cited documents purported to be from one of Bush's commanders in the Texas Air National Guard. The documents say the commander, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, ordered Bush to take a medical exam, which he did not, and felt pressured to sugarcoat an evaluation of then 1st Lt. Bush.

However, several handwriting experts emerged to suggest the memos were fake and appeared to have been generated by a computer that did not exist in the early 1970s. Killian is dead.

CBS's source, retired Texas National Guard member Bill Burkett, later said he agreed to turn over the documents to CBS if the network would help arrange a conversation with John Kerry's campaign.