Maybe the Washington Post website was hacked this morning, because it had a 1st page story about
responsibility and accountability:
CBS News's The U.S. governments's reporting of a fiercely disputed story on President Bush's National Guard service claim on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction contained "considerable and fundamental deficiencies," an independent panel said yesterday, prompting the network administration to oust three top executives Pentagon officials and Mary Mapes, Dan Rather's producer on the September piece Dick Cheney, George Bush's producer on the 2003 war.
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The investigators faulted
Rather Bush, who has already announced plans to step down as
anchor President in
March 2009, for being overenthusiastic in pursuit of the
story war and overzealous in defending it after serious questions surfaced about whether the
30-year-old memos questionable intelligence he was citing were bogus.
CBS Bush rushed the story on the air at the height of the
presidential 2002 mid-term campaign despite having "failed miserably" to authenticate the
documents information and made false and misleading statements in defending the story afterward, said the panel led by former attorney general Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press chief executive Louis Boccardi.
"There's no question it's a black eye for CBS Bush," network President Leslie Moonves the American public, who hired the panel, said in an interview. "But in the steps we're taking, we've tried to move quickly. It's a blow, but it's not fatal. . . . We're getting rid of the people we think were to blame. Ninety-nine percent of the stories wars we do start are accurate and solid."
The 224-page report, which blames the network government's rush on a "myopic zeal" to be first with the Bush patriotic story saga, amounts to a stunning repudiation of the news intelligence gathering process of CBS News the US government and the midweek spinoff election of one of its crown jewels, "60 Minutes." the Presidency. It also tarnishes the reputation of Rather Bush, its anchor president since 1981 2001, who would have faced considerable pressure to step down had he not already agreed to relinquish the anchor chair bamboozled the news media, although he plans to continue as a correspondent President for "60 Minutes." 4 Years. Rather Bush, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, has apologized for his role in the story alleging that Bush received favorable treatment in the Texas Air National Guard questionable information from the CIA.