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Dan Rather stands up for himself regarding CBS's treatment during the Killian memos flap:
Q: The documents were authentic?
Rather: "The documents were a part of the story. But the story was about what is known, and questions unanswered, about President Bush's service, and what we reported was true. This lawsuit is directed at Viacom, CBS, its ownership and its management. It has two parts: a contract with me that they broke, and the second part has to deal with fraud and how they handled the story. Basically, (it's) the undue influence of the corporatization and the politicization of news coverage, some of which I didn't know was happening at the time. Some goes back to our breaking the story of Abu Ghraib."
Q: But were the National Guard documents authentic?
Rather: "I believe they are authentic. I believed it at the time, I believe it now."
Q: So all the people who have pointed out, for example, that the particular font on the documents didn't even exist back then, they are wrong?
Rather: "I'm glad you asked about that because, unfortunately, there has been a lot written and said about it, saying they were bogus, they were forgeries, none of which has stood up. But I do want to come back to the documents being just part of the story. The core of the story -- what a journalist tries to do -- is get the truth, or as close to the truth as possible. We did that. Our story was true."
Anybody who was a typist back then knows the original source documents (CBS had faxed and copied versions) were genuine and probably typed by Killian himself.
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Darren Mack has hired a new lawyer to help him try to get off.
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Chelsy and Harry might not be over yet.
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No comment about this whatsoever.
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