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GoEagles · Last edited by GoEagles on Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:56 pm; edited 1 time in total

Andrew Heyward Internal E-Mail to CBS News Employees
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash5.htm
Mon Sep 20 2004 13:25:11 ET

Dear CBS News Colleagues,

Many of you have expressed understandable concern about the disputed documents used in the 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY report on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard.

Obviously, 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY had full confidence in the original report or it would not have aired. However, in the wake of serious and disturbing questions that came up after the broadcast, CBS News has done extensive additional reporting in an effort to confirm the documentsÕ authenticity. That included interviews with Marian Carr Knox, secretary to the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, the officer named as the author of the documents; an interview with Bill Burkett, the former Guard officer who provided the memos to 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY; and a further review of the forensic evidence on both sides of the debate.

Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.

CBS News and CBS management are commissioning an independent review of the process by which the report was prepared and broadcast to help determine what actions need to be taken. The names of the people conducting the review will be announced shortly, and their findings will be made public.

Nothing is more important to us than our credibility and keeping faith with the millions of people who count on us for fair, accurate, reliable, and independent reporting. I know all of you work tirelessly to be worthy of that trust. I hope today's public statements about the documents are an important first step in restoring YOUR confidence in the standards and systems we have in place to ensure that we live up to our obligations to our viewers, listeners, and readers -- and to one another.

Thanks
Andrew
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Kimmymac · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject:

MEMO

From: kimmymac
To: "Andrew"
RE: CYA

Glad to hear we didn't set out to "dupe" anyone.

Yeah.

Right.

Kiss my @$$, "Andrew." I resign, effective immediately.

(Answering memo that should be sent by employees at C?BS!, but won't.)

rb325th · Admiral Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 1334

GoEagles · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject:

rb325th · Admiral Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 1334

Thanks, just heard on Fox that Burkett is confirmed as the source!! Oh someone is going to pay dearly!!
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BrianC · PO2 Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 364

"Burkett, a retired National Guard lieutenant colonel, also admits that he deliberately misled the CBS News producer working on the report, giving her a false account of the documents' origins to protect a promise of confidentiality to the actual source," network spokeswoman Kelli Edwards said in the statement.
(source: FoxNews)
..........

The problem here is that SeeBSNews seems to think that the right to protecting one's journalist sources also extends to Mr. Burkett - when in fact, Mr. Burkett, since he obviously knew the documents were false, has indicated that he KNOWINGLY falsified a government document, and he should be hauled into court and made to testify WHO created these documents.

Anyone want to bet me that it WASN'T someone at the DNC????

Bystander · PO3 Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 271 Location: MI

The email contains: 'Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic...'. I've heard that phrase over and over on TV today. Why don't we hear: the documents have been proved to be fakes, forgeries, etc.? This we already know. Does this mean sea B.S. is going to go forward in trying to prove their authenticity?
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Wynne · Lieutenant Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 228

Dan Rather was purportedly on this story for FIVE YEARS and they just NOW do the 'additional checking' necessary to decide they cannot authenticate the documents? Give me a break.

shawa · CNO Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 2004

Andrew Heyward quote "keeping faith with the millions of people who count on us for fair; accurate,reliable, and independent reporting".

Who the heck does he think he's kidding ??

You don't need an independent review to tell us WHO is responsible!

You don"t need an independent review to determine what actions need to be taken!

YOU Mr HEYWARD, along with DAN RATHER, MARY MAPES, and JOHN ROBERTS held meetings and decided to go forward with this fraud.

The action that needs to be taken is the FIRING of all four of you!

BB Stacker · Seaman Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 150 Location: Eustis Fl

Anker-Klanker · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject:

Tex · Seaman Apprentice Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 84

If these clowns really wanted to know the truth, why haven't they interviewed Killian's wife and son? How about Staudt? Or Bush's fellow pilots?

No, instead they turn over every rock looking for anyone who will criticize the president. And all they could dig up was an 87-year old pool secretary, that loon Burkett and the criminal Barnes. Rolling Eyes

Weak.
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a6502 · Ensign Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 64

It was not a plot. Not the fault of CBS. Not BB's bad. It was a virus, yeah, a virus - that's it, written by those g*d*mn bloggers.

But the important thing is the content.

/Kool-Aide

So, CBS got the documents on WEDNESDAY! Then vouched for their authenticity! Now Dan says "Sorry". I feel so much better.

Time to vomit.

Dabba55 · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:10 pm Post subject:

ALMOUNT · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:31 pm Post subject: