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To: KLP who wrote (75060)	10/5/2004 4:53:43 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Yes, but USA Today didn't tout them the way CBS did, nor have they said much if anything about verifying their provenance. Guess they're just letting CBS take the heat. BTW, this means that Dan Rather gets to announce the re-election of President Bush, and hopefully Republican gains in the House and Senate. I'm sure he'll be thrilled. :-/ CBS Says Probe Results Unlikely Until After Election 15 minutes ago By Martha Graybow NEW YORK (Reuters) - An external review of how CBS News came to use disputed documents in a report on President Bush (news - web sites)'s military record will probably not be concluded until after the November election so as not to interfere with the presidential race, a top executive said on Tuesday. Les Moonves, the co-president of CBS parent company Viacom, told an analyst meeting that the review of the CBS "60 Minutes II" report being done by former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired Associated Press chief Louis Boccardi had no timetable for completion. But he said he did not want it to interfere with the Nov. 2 election. "Obviously, it should be done probably after the election is over so that it doesn't affect what's going on," he told a Goldman Sachs media conference in New York. A CBS spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the statement. But she pointed out that when CBS News President Andrew Heyward named Boccardi and Thornburgh to conduct the investigation of the Sept. 8 report, he said he hoped it would be completed in weeks rather than months. The CBS report alleged that Bush had received special treatment while serving in he Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. The report also produced documents purportedly written by Bush's Guard commander complaining that he was pressured to "sugar coat" Bush's record -- but the man who gave the documents to CBS later admitted that he lied about its origins and serious questions have been raised over their authenticity. (additional reporting by Arthur Spiegelman)