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WASHINGTON -- After almost two weeks of defending the authenticity of the documents, CBS News and Dan Rather on Monday apologized for airing paperwork they now say cannot be positively identified as records from President Bush's National Guard service.
Rather and CBS News President Andrew Heyward said the documents should not have been used on the air because retired Texas Air National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett, who provided them, had lied about where he got them.See the full content of this document
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Cbs, Rather Apologize for Guard Story
"Now, after extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically," Rather said in a statement noting CBS had been "misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers."
Heyward said CBS News "cannot prove the documents are authentic" and the network will commission an independent review of the process by which the report was prepared...See the full content of this document
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