[Texas Eagle]

WERE THE KILLIAN MEMOS FORGED?

If they were, wouldn't that be a crime? Weren't these being sold to us as government documents?

[Allan]

Bump

[IncPen]

[stands2reason]

Best dissection of the report yet.

[Mo1]

Thornburgh and Boccardi sum up: "The Panel cannot conclude that a political agenda at 60 Minutes Wednesday drove either the timing of the airing of the Segment or its content."

Oh Gee .. could it be because by doing so would implement CBS in a crime????

Forging Military Documents is a FEDERAL CRIME!

And THAT is the REAL cover up in this whole report!

[lasereye]

Another Emperor's New Clothes liberal media situation.

[Texas Songwriter]

Hillary Clinton figures in.

[Texasforever]

Where, for instance, did the documents come from?

Check Hackworth's hard drive.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[FreeKeys]

Does not finding political bias pay as well as not raising hogs?

[Cicero]

Excellent analysis. They really pick the report to pieces.

There's just one flaw in this article, and it's a big one. Johnathan Last asks WHY the authors of the report failed to hit CBS on the two issues of political corruption forgery. The answer to that question is clear: Because that was their job. It was what they were paid to do.

Last says right near the beginning, in passing: "Compiled by independent investigators Dick Thornburgh and Louis D. Boccardi." Sorry, they are NOT independent investigators. They were paid by CBS and they were heading a team of LAWYERS paid for by CBS. In other words, they had an OBLIGATION NOT TO FIND ANYTHING DAMAGING TO THEIR CLIENT.

"Independent Investigators," my Aunt Tillie.

CBS bought and paid for the investigation and received satisfaction for their money.

[Waco]

The media routinely FLAUNTS it's bias and political agenda! All but these genius's can see it every day. What as-holes.

[mcenedo]

How do you proove documents are forged? It seems the only definitive proof would be to have the purportive author deny them. If the author is dead, I guess it can't be "prooved".

The fact that it is impossible to replicate the documents with the technology that existed at that time is, apparently, meaningless.

The investigation into political bias begins and ends with the statements of the criminals involved.

Quite the "investigation".

[beckett]

The more this report is examined, the crumbier it looks. Tony Blankley pretty much nailed it in a column the other day. Thornburgh acted as CBS's attorney, not as its investigator.

[oldbrowser]

This talk of securing an advance for a source and "changing the momentum" of the election is not normal journalistic practice. It is damning stuff.

I think this memo was the smoking gun and should be grounds for a grand jury indictment.

[FreeKeys]

The report tells us that Mapes and Rather had pursued the story for five years...
...Dick Thornburgh explained on the January 10 NewsHour, "If you're looking for a villain in this story, we have one. It's haste."

Do I really have to comment?

[FreeKeys]

"The Panel does not find a basis to accuse those who investigated, produced, vetted or aired the Segment of having a political bias"

"Look Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news.  All the networks tilt left." -- CBS News President ANDREW HEYWARD, to six-time Emmy award winner Bernard Goldberg, quoted HERE and HERE.

[FreeKeys]

It is also curious that while the panel could discover no political agenda at CBS, it readily found one elsewhere. Explaining how the authenticity of the documents first came to be questioned, Thornburgh and Boccardi--again without citing evidence--trace this to "some people on the Internet, at first primarily supporters of President Bush with their own conservative political agenda."

See "The WHO Funded It? Fallacy" HERE .

[Lancey Howard]

If they were concerned about gaps in Tytell's knowledge, did the panel consult other experts? No. Instead, Thornburgh and Boccardi solicited the opinion of this single expert; then, when he reached an unwanted conclusion, they turned their backs on it.

The report itself is as corrupt as CBS. What a disgrace.

[Lancey Howard]

The only other possible conclusion is that CBS's promised full accounting is a whitewash.

Yep. That's exactly what it is.