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CBS Stands by Authenticity of National Guard Documents
NEW YORK -- CBS News issued a statement this afternoon certifying that at least one of the claims made by forgery experts is false. The network, under fire from allegations that it used fake documents in a 60 Minutes story Wednesday that reported President George W. Bush shirked his military obligations in the National Guard,said it would address the claims in tonight's news broadcast. Here is the full text of the network's statement: "Later today, CBS News will address on the air and in detail the issues surrounding the documents broadcast in the 60 Minutes report on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. At this time, however, CBS News states with absolute certainty that the ability to produce the "th" superscript mentioned in reports about the documents did exist on typewriters as early as 1968, and in fact is in President Bush's official military records released by the White House. This and other issues surrounding the authenticity of the documents and more on this developing story will be reported on tonight on The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather."Rather was interviewed this morning on CNN. "I know that this story is true," he said. "I believe that the witnesses and the documents are authentic. We wouldn't have gone to air if they would not have been...I want to make clear to you, I want to make clear to you if I have not made clear to you, that this story is true, and that more important questions than how we got the story, which is where those who don't like the story like to put the emphasis, the more important question is what are the answers to the questions raised in the story."Visit CBS NEWS at www.cbsnews.com"