CBS Statement On Bush Memos

And one of the most important questions has not yet been answered. Bill Burkett now admits he got the forgeries from another person. Who might that person be? Could it be someone in the Kerry campaign? Or might it be someone in the DNC? Or could it be Michael Moore and Janeane Garofalo playing around on their computer one weekend while laughing at their own comic genius? I would like to know, and I suspect we will find out soon enough. Now that the story is unraveling, everyone who thinks they can cover their ass will do so, and the last one in line will be hung out to dry. Keep your clothespins handy.

Burkett, a retired National Guard lieutenant colonel, also admits that he deliberately misled the CBS News producer working on the report, giving her a false account of the documents’ origins to protect a promise of confidentiality to the actual source.

Burkett originally said he obtained the documents from another former Guardsman. Now he says he got them from a different source whose connection to the documents and identity CBS News has been unable to verify to this point.