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[Uisguex Jack]

Well the official investigation is out:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/10/national/main665727.shtml


Here's my question, the articles says the following:

[Doc Farmer]

[kate]

from the link--
(CBS) Four CBS News employees, including three executives, have been ousted for their role in preparing
and reporting a disputed story about President Bush’s National Guard service.

[rbshirley]

[Doc Farmer]

[shawa]

I am furious!!!
This report is a CYA document to prevent any criminal charges
for seeBS.

http://scyllacharybdis.blogspot.com/2004/12/thornburgh-to-withhold-cbs-report-to.html

There is a BIG explanation of why no details will be made public.
Apparently Thornburgh was hired not to do an INDEPENDENT
INVESTIGATION but actually to make sure there are no criminal charges
against cBS et al.

Scroll down to:
What criminal liability is at issue? Plenty
Click on "plenty" for an overview of the criminal charges involved.
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FEDERAL CRIMES WERE COMMITTED!!
Firing a few employees doesn't make it go away.
I want a Congressional Investigation to get answers!!
Witnesses under oath, examination of phone records and computers.
Who forged the documents. What role did Joe Lockhart, Max Cleland,
and the Kerry campaign play?? The only way we get answers is to put
these people under oath with the threat of jail time if they don't
come clean.
Call or email your congressmen demanding a investigation!!!
This report is a coverup by lawyers PAID by CBS to cover their A$$es.

[Me#1You#10]

Free Republic link containing a copy of a purported SeeBS memo to employees....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317728/posts?page=101,34

[Snipe]

Well, I'd boycott cBS, but the problem is that I haven't watched that
channel since Cronkite gave the TET win to the VC. That includes
all those Norman Lear "sitcoms" that made American prime time TV
the crock of feces that it is today. What I would really like to see is
the cBS White House Press Office moved across the street to a bench
in Lafayette Park...along with Helen Thomas. Somewhere along the line,
our press corps has shifted from reporting the news to being the news.
Maybe the DNC would take them in and give them office space.
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Tin Can Sailor

[Uisguex Jack]

Doc Farmer wrote:

[shawa]

Back in September Representative Cox requested an investigationof CBS
scandal. It took me a while but I found the following posts.

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:37 pm Post subject: CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION TO BEGIN = CBS

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CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION TO BEGIN = CBS

Rep. Cox Requests House Rathergate Probe

A senior House Republican has formally requested a congressional investigation into an apparent criminal conspiracy to rig the 2004 presidential election by forging records from President Bush's National Guard service and having them reported by CBS News.........................

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/14/223720.shtml

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And this quick click to email your congressman:
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:17 am Post subject: Please contact your Reps about CBS


http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Please use the link to send your Rep an e-mail about the possible congressional investion by Rep Cox of California into action by CBS.

Call or send a fax to if you want to do it that way.
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Mad as Hell!
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The public has a right to know who committed Federal crimes of
forging military documents, and committing fraud to influence a
Presidential Election.
Had it not been for the bloggers, CBS would have gotten away
with this hoax and I'm sure that many voters would have been
influenced by it.

Contact your own Congressman and Congressman Cox and tell him
we demand an investigation!!

[srmorton]

Uisguex Jack, your "when pigs fly" illustration is priceless! I love it!
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Susan R. Morton

[Uisguex Jack]

Thanks, I found that from a link thru here:

http://www.paperpino.net/automata.htm


I agree about the long term history of CBS.

Demographically there seems to be a limited set of us with a clear understanding of how Walter Cronkites coverage of Tet was one of the most costly examples of 'wagging the dog' as my life time has yielded.

Tet was THE last ditch all out effort of the communists. By the time TET had passed the communists had nothing left to give. They did cause horrific damage in tet but they expended all their resources.

By North Vietnamese historical accounts (I believe this can be found in Gen Giaps autobiography), they knew at this point they had lost the war.

That was until they saw the war could be won by further manipulating the highly biased US television press. They won the war with Walter Cronkinte, John Kerry, and Jane Fonda. Just ask John McCain.

Tonight though Bob Schieffer is doing a commendable job of trying to scratch some credibility back into CBS. He at least seems somewhat contrite.

Dan Rather had 'no comment' for this evenings CBS news.

Rather's particular skill in twisting a story is by way of his choice of diction and syntax. He consistently picks the oddest, most inflammatory words to put his little spin on almost anything that blathers out of his mouth. Rather Blather.

This is why tonight (I did watch the broadcast) I loved the little lyrical justice of a interview of a woman giving some heart rendering account of a natural disaster she'd just experienced.

Just as her story became universally compelling a very nicely designed FOX NEWS logo comes on to the screen as that was the only microphone in the video feed.

He, He, He... Dan does like his news to be lyrical!

[Me#1You#10]

Powerline offers an hypothesis on one of THE most intriguing unanswered questions...and the Swiftees are at the heart of it...

[scotty61]

This is a bit of a smoking gun that is being lost in the uproar over the "no political bias" deal.

"Mapes indicated in the April 1999 email that she had been informed that there was no waiting list for President Bush's TexANG unit at the time he entered. She posited the "darkest spin" that then-Colonel Walter Staudt, then in charge of the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group, deliberately kept these spots open "to take in the children of privilege...while maintaining deniability." Mapes told the Panel that she never found any proof for this theory."

By her own admission Mapes states that she found evidence that Bush did not need to have influence used in order to get into the guard. What did Mapes do with the information? Falsely twisted it to fit into her agenda and lied by ommission.

Since the TexANG needed pilots, Bush did not even need influence to get in and since he already had the points and permission to get out early, he did not need to take a physical to maintain a flight status that he would be unable to utilize. This in effect makes the story as dead as the dodo.
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John Kerry. A Neville Chamberlain for our times.

[Snipe]

Since the TexANG needed pilots, Bush did not even need influence to get in and since he already had the points and permission to get out early, he did not need to take a physical to maintain a flight status that he would be unable to utilize. This in effect makes the story as dead as the dodo.[/quote]

What I've always wondered is, if the story was true...so what! In those
days all services were undergoing a huge RIF. All we needed was
more pilots in flight status drawing flight skins and milling around. Even
JefnK got an early out (or an early boot) as the case may be. It just
seems like a bunch of people running around waving their arms about
absolutly nothing.
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Tin Can Sailor