September 15, 2004

CBS Producer Who Obtained Questionable Guard Documents Identified GOPUSA, TX - ... Newsweek is suggesting that Mapes received the documents from Bill Burkett, who it describes as a disgruntled former Guard officer. 11:09:35 PM

CBS Says It Will Check Questions on Bush Files New York Times -CBS News said for the first time last night that there were legitimate questions about the authenticity of documents it presented in a "60 Minutes" report last week that raised new issues about President Bush's service in the National Guard - and said it would aggressively investigate them. The news division continued to insist that the general thrust of the documents was accurate: that a commander felt Mr. Bush had been shirking his duties and receiving preferential treatment because of his connections. But Andrew Heyward, the president of CBS News, said the network would "redouble its efforts" to determine whether the documents were authentic. 11:05:33 PM