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SEN. ROBERT BENNETT -- ""It's very clear the documents were forged. They were laid on [Dan Ra^ther and .. he bit." Quotable:

Emily Will, a documents examiner from North Carolina hired by CBS, said she told the network before the report aired that she questioned handwriting in the documents she was shown and whether it could have been produced by a typewriter. Her main concern was that she was not provided a known sample of the signature to use for comparison. Will said she e-mailed a CBS producer and urged her the night before the broadcast not to play up that a professional document examiner had authenticated the papers. "I did not feel that they wanted to investigate it very deeply," Will told ABC News. Another expert hired by CBS, Linda James of Plano, Texas, told ABC that "I did not authenticate anything and I don't want it understood that I did." James told AP late Tuesday she raised similar concerns about signature samples. "I really pressed that because I knew that other document examiners looking at the same documents would have a real problem authenticating these," she said.

And this:

"We would not have put the report on the air if we did not believe in every aspect of it," said CBS News President Andrew Heyward. However, Heyward also said the network will try to resolve what he calls the unresolved issues. "Enough questions have been raised that we are going redouble our efforts to answer those questions."

And finally, this:

"I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the News division and that if the cancer was not removed the News division itself would be killed by it," said the former counsel to the President.

Oops. I made that last one up. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack