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To: Ilaine who wrote (70624)9/15/2004 8:45:31 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 794220
 
What am I missing? There must be something more important at stake.

Ah, no, CB, that is the beauty of the thing, there is absolutely no "there" there. If those memos were absolutely bona fide, all they would show is that Bush refused an order for a physical and Killian was under some pressure to go easy on him. That's was the entire 'big bang' that the Democrats were counting on to resussitate the whole Bush/TexANG/AWOL charges, which didn't work the last few times they were tried.

This affair is purely meta-meta-meta.

UPDATE: Powerline blog weighs in on the CBS statement:

Andrew Heyward is the president of CBS News. Here's his statement today:

"We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing."

Translation: CBS has played its cards; it holds none. CBS now undertakes efforts to discover evidence bolstering a story that has blown up in its face. Its efforts should be redirected to facing reality and acknowledging culpability. It is now at the least complicit in a fraud of monumental proportions.
powerlineblog.com

Sounds like a reasonable translation & legal opinion to me. How's it sound to you?
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