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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If anyone really cares about what Bush was doing -- or not doing at that time -- this should pretty much seal the deal:
- A senior CBS official, who asked not to be named because CBS managers did not want to go beyond their official statement, named one of the network's sources as retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, the immediate superior of the documents' alleged author, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He said a CBS reporter read the documents to Hodges over the phone and Hodges replied that "these are the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time."
"These documents represent what Killian not only was putting in memoranda, but was telling other people," the CBS News official said. "Journalistically, we've gone several extra miles."
The official said the network regarded Hodges's comments as "the trump card" on the question of authenticity, as he is a Republican who acknowledged that he did not want to hurt Bush. Hodges, who declined to grant an on-camera interview to CBS, did not respond to messages left on his home answering machine in Texas.
WaPo
CBS found a Bush supporter which first-hand knowledge who confirms the substance of the Killian memos.
Not that anyone cares. Hell, Dick Cheney could announce that Bush was torturing babies at Abu Ghraib, and some of you guys would be lining up to call Cheney a disgruntled soon-to-be-former employee and pointing out that the babies probably deserved it.
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Ty, out here in a swing state, when a witness tells a lie that doesn't relate too much to the case, say that he was somewhere on Xmas, his testimony becomes pretty much discredited in its entirety. That's just how jurors think. When one side proves the other side actually made up documents, well the side of fraud losses the whole case. Maybe Cali juries are more willing to understand motives, so you have different experiences.
