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To: LindyBill who wrote (97001)	1/26/2005 1:29:23 PM
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LGF - Document Expert Demands CBS Corrections editorandpublisher.com Marcel Matley, the handwriting analyst whose work was deceptively used in the infamous CBS News story on the fraudulent National Guard memos (they claimed Matley had authenticated the documents, when he had only authenticated one signature), says the independent review panel’s report defames him and damages his reputation: ’60 Minutes’ Document Expert Slams CBS Report, Demands Corrections. (Hat tip: Daniel.) NEW YORK A document examiner involved in the flawed “60 Minutes Wednesday” report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service claims that he was defamed and his reputation damaged by the recent report from an independent review panel that investigated the show’s reporting practices, E&P has learned. Marcel Matley, one of four document experts consulted by CBS News while reporting its Sept. 8, 2004, report on Bush, is demanding a slew of corrections in the report, which was issued earlier this month. In an interview with E&P, he referred to the report’s treatment of him as “defamation.” The independent review panel, headed by former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and former Associated Press CEO Louis Boccardi, found mistakes in the network’s efforts to authenticate documents on which the report was based and determined that CBS had rushed the report to air too quickly. In an e-mail to Thornburgh’s office on Jan. 13, obtained by E&P, Matley criticized the report as containing “certain incorrect statements affecting me and which are derogatory and/or damaging to me professionally.” He also asks that the panel issue corrections for each of the errors he contends are in the report and distribute the corrections. “It is professional defamation,” Matley, a 20-year document expert, told E&P, from his home in San Francisco. “When you are in a court of law, it can make the difference between being considered credible or not.” He said the report has already hurt his professional reputation, claiming it was mentioned last week during his appearance in a Modesto, Calif., courtroom on a probate case. “Someone brought it up that I was the one who made the mistake in the ‘60 Minutes’ case,” he said. “I’ve already had this thrown at me.” Matley told E&P he had yet to hear back from CBS or Thornburgh about the e-mail. “They have not acknowledged my existence,” he declared. “They have not even replied.”