September 20, 2004

"BILL BURKETT, in a weekend interview with CBS News Anchor .. Dan Rather, has acknowledged that he provided the now-disputed documents used in the Sept. 8 "60 Minutes Wednesday" report on President Bush�s service in the Texas Air National Guard." -- CBS News. More:
Burkett .. 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. Burkett originally said he obtained the documents from another former Guardsman. Now he says he got them from a different source whose connection to the documents and identity CBS News has been unable to verify to this point ..

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.

Here are a few recommendations for the CBS commission: Powerline, Little Green Footballs, Freepers Buckhead and TankerKC, Ace, Patterico, KerrySpot, RatherBiased.com, Beldar, INDCJournal, Howard Kurtz, and Hugh Hewitt. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack