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Friday, September 17, 2004

Another Blow to CBS 
ABC interviewed retired Texas Air National Guard General Staudt--the guy cited in the forged Killian memos as pressuring Killian into sugarcoating Bush's officer evaluation reports.

Well, first the memos are decisively outed as forgeries.

Now the only living witness, Col. Staudt, is pouring cold water over the whole CBS story.
"I never pressured anybody about George Bush because I had no reason to," Staudt told ABC News in his first interview since the documents were made public.
The memo stated that "Staudt is pushing to sugar coat" a review of Bush's performance.

Staudt said he decided to come forward because he saw erroneous reports on television. CBS News first reported on the memos, which have come under scrutiny by document experts who question whether they are authentic. Killian, the purported author of the documents, died in 1984.

Staudt insisted Bush did not use connections to avoid being sent to Vietnam.

"He didn't use political influence to get into the Air National Guard," Staudt said, adding, "I don't know how they would know that, because I was the one who did it and I was the one who was there and I didn't talk to any of them."



...So it's clear not only did CBS get snookered into running forgeries. They also clearly didn't bother to check the allegations out with the surviving primary source--a monumental failure of journalistic best practices.

Mr. Rather, Mr. Hewitt: Resign!




Comments:
If the CBS docs are fakeries, why isn't the Whitehouse and Bush and all other people involved suing CBS for libel?

Until such a lawsuit comes to fuition, I will continue to believe the documents are true - and so should you all!

At the turn of the century, Socialist Upton Sinclair, possessed documents on several illegal acts by John D. Rockefeller. In a similar smear campaign to that against Dan Rather, the uber-wealthy, engaged on attacks on Sinclair's character. Newspapers alleged his documents were fakes and also engaged in a smear campaign against Sinclair's character. (source: The Brass Check by Upton Sinclair)

When Sinclair fought back against the special interests of his day - he diligently stood by his facts, much like Rather today. Sinclair challenged the special interests by inviting libel suits - no such suits were forthcoming.

To this day Sinclair is regarded as a muck-raker, wrongly. Sinclair was one of the few true heroes of society. He devoted his life to fighting for the interests of the people in the face of wealthy opposition. I regard Dan Rather in the same light. Rather, like Kitty Kelly (let's remember that she won a pulitzer a few years back for her Clinton era scandal work), are being trashed by the opposition is a violent smear campaign aimed more at Rather than the reporting.

It stands to reason that such a hottly contested issue must be settled in a court of law before any true resolution can be found to this arguement.

Many people today remember Sinclair for his work on The Jungle, which was a novel aimed at bringing the Chicago Meat packing districts abuse of laborers to light, but instead is often remembered for the changes it rousted in how the meat was packed and not solving the labor problems.

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Gregory,

Thanks for the comment.

Bush will not sue for libel because to do so would be 1.) politically counterproductive, and 2.) legally questionable, since Bush is the King of All Public Figures, and public figures do not recieve the same protections under libel laws as your average schmuck.

Bush also couldn't show that CBS has damaged him in any way. I think CBS is helping him, now.

Staudt MIGHT have a claim, if he can show damages. He could go after whoever forged the documents, if he can be identified with certainty. I think that would be easier than going after CBS itself. I think the document examination experts who have been misrepresented by CBS definitely have a claim against CBS, since it wouldn't be hard for them to show damages to their professional reputation.
 
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