CBS to Release New Statement on Docs Flap
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
FOX NEWS
NEW YORK — CBS News, dogged over questions about the authenticity of memos apparently showing that President Bush shirked his National Guard service more than 30 years ago, is expected to release a statement about the documents Wednesday afternoon.
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A House memo being circulated by GOP Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri calls on CBS News President Andrew Heyward to retract the network's story and to disclose the identities of the people used to help "authenticate" the documents.
"We are writing to express our dismay that CBS has become part of a campaign to deceive the public and to defame the president," says the letter, which FOX News has learned has been signed by about 40 House members.
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Meanwhile, Rep. Chris Cox (search), R-Calif., chairman of the House Policy Committee and of the Homeland Security Committee, called on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., to investigate CBS News' use of "apparently forged documents concerning the service record of President George W. Bush intended to unfairly damage his reputation and influence the outcome of the 2004 presidential election."
"Despite the growing abundance of evidence that CBS News has aided and abetted fraud, the network has declined to reveal the source of the disputed documents," Cox wrote in the hand-delivered letter. "Given the shortness of time between now and the election, which the apparent fraud is meant to influence, and the even shorter time before Congress is scheduled to adjourn, I strongly urge that the subcommittee move with all deliberate speed to uncover the facts."
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