Dan Rather defends report on President Bush&#39;s National Guard
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CBS News anchorman Dan Rather is spearheading an aggressive defense of a &quot;60 Minutes Two&quot; report about President Bush&#39;s service in the Air National Guard.
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NEW YORK - While acknowledging mistakes in CBS anchor Dan Rather's "60 Minutes" report that questioned President Bush's service in the National Guard, competing news anchors Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings offered support Saturday for the beleaguered newsman.    Brokaw blasted what he called an attempt to "demonize" CBS and Rather on the Internet, where complaints about the report first surfaced...
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President Bush and other senior administration officials yesterday defended their decision to invade Iraq despite errors in prewar intelligence, echoing findings in a draft report by the top
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CBS anchor Dan Rather yesterday acknowledged for the first time that there are serious questions about the authenticity of documents he used to question President Bush&#39;s National Guard record last week on &quot;60 Minutes.
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After nearly two weeks of furious back-and-forth debate about the basis for a &quot;60 Minutes&quot; report on President Bush&#39;s National Guard service, CBS News has acknowledged it was &quot;misled&quot; by a source and shouldn&#39;t have gone forward with the story.
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Dan Rather's lack of involvement in the discredited story about President Bush's military service was "shocking," NBC's chief said Friday, promising it would never have happened at his network.
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Statement by CBS News President Andrew Heyward and Dan Rather about the authenticity of documents used to support a "60 Minutes" story that questioned President Bush's Vietnam War-era National Guard service:
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As his anchor career nears its end in March, Dan Rather's reputation as a hard-charging news reporter took some damaging blows from the independent panel that probed CBS's discredited story on President Bush's National Guard service.
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WASHINGTON - CBS News mounted an aggressive defense Friday of its report about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard, with anchor Dan Rather saying broadcast memos questioned by forensic experts came from "what we consider to be solid sources."   On Friday's "CBS Evening News," Rather said that "no definitive evidence" has emerged to prove the documents are forgeries.   "If any definitive evidence comes up, we will report it," Rather said...
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President Bush strongly defended Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday, declaring that the Pentagon chief is doing &quot;a really fine job&quot; and that any suggestions that he is insensitive are simply wrong.
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President Bush huddled with top military leaders about the Iraq war Friday, and Pentagon officials defended efforts to rid the Iraqi national police of sectarian bias and corruption, even as an independent review found the force too tainted to continue.
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To hear some press experts tell it, CBS&#39;s admission that it was duped into using questionable documents about President George W. Bush&#39;s National Guard service during the Vietnam War was
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hen the CBS News anchor Dan Rather defended himself on camera and in interviews last Friday against questions that were being raised about documents he had used to bolster
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President Bush defended the invasion of Iraq on Thursday despite a new report rejecting a prime justification for it, while Democratic challenger John Kerry said Bush "aggrandized and fictionalized" the threat from Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 16, 2004 - Anchor Dan Rather and other top figures at CBS News are softening their defense of the authenticity of challenged documents purporting to prove lapses in President Bush&#39;s National
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fter days of expressing confidence about the documents used in a &quot;60 Minutes&#39;&#39; report that raised new questions about President Bush&#39;s National Guard service, CBS News officials have grave
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WASHINGTON - CBS News mounted an aggressive defense Friday of its report about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard, with anchor Dan Rather saying broadcast memos questioned by forensic experts came from "what we consider to be solid sources."   On Friday's "CBS Evening News," Rather said that "no definitive evidence" has emerged to prove the documents are forgeries. "If any definitive evidence comes up, we will report it," Rather said...