[Gustafm1000]

Notice he says "accurate" not "authentic."

Big difference... they are hiding on this one.

[Howlin]

Nice catch.

"We established to our satisfaction...

There's another one.

Meanwhile, Rather is now talking to the secretary -- let's see if he is able to get her to say what he needs -- and puts her on the show tonight.

[nsc68]

Exactly right. By failing to stand behind the authenticity of the memos, they have tacitly admitted that they're fake.

we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing

Translation: Hopefully this memo stuff will go away now. In the meantime, we'll be going after Bush.

[TomGuy]

Parsing right out of the Clinton playbook.

[Eva]

Good find, there definitely is a big difference between accurate and authentic.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Notice he says "accurate" not "authentic." Big difference... they are hiding on this one.

Good point. This was a thought out and calculated statement. Probably very lawyerly in its choice of words.

[rvoitier]

This may be expounding on the obvious but what happened was CBS' 5 year investigation (read:dirt-digging expedition with disgruntled democRATS) turned up anectodtal evidence of the substance contained in the document presenting on 60min but just didn't have an actual document. So they made one up.
If they would've just nixed the documents and told the truth that they talked to a lot people who said this and that then there would've been no problemo.
But 'ole kooky Dan had to be greedy and make it look official.

[George W. Bush]

Notice he says "accurate" not "authentic."

Good catch! Excellent parsing.

[pointsal]

Is the spin on the meaning "IS"?