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...suggesting that Lieut. Bush had ignored a direct order to get a physical and that his superiors were pressured to "sugar coat" his evaluation. No one talked much about whether the documents could have come from a 1970s-era typewriter, and there was no strident dissent. But, says Josh Howard, the show's executive producer, "We pressed the producer on 'How do you know they're authentic?'" And the producer, a respected veteran named Mary Mapes who had helped break the stunning Abu Ghraib torture story just months before, had answers. She had credible sources and document experts, he says...
...News employees acknowledged for the first time last week that there may be problems with the authenticity of the memos. "It's up to us to get to the bottom of legitimate questions that have been raised," CBS News President Andrew Heyward told TIME. Then, in a surprising twist, Howard pulled the Administration back into the fiasco on Friday. "If the White House had just raised an eyebrow--they didn't have to say they were forgeries--but if there was any hint that there was a question, that would have sent us back," says Howard. The morning the show...
Ironically, one of the reasons CBS (and the White House) may not have vetted the memos with extra care is that they weren't all that shocking. "This wasn't the document that said, 'Here's the proof that George Bush was using cocaine,'" says Howard. "These were documents that incrementally added shading to the story. The idea that someone would forge a document that was so mild--that didn't send up a warning flag." (Then again, CBS was excited enough about the memos to hype them on its original show.) Mapes, who spent five years pursuing this story...
...stories about efforts to purge or embellish Bush's military records. In February, Burkett told TIME, "I don't have the smoking gun, but there was an effort to make [Bush] look better than he was." He has posted angry and sometimes reckless statements on liberal blogs. CBS's Howard denies that Burkett was interviewed for the Sept. 8 show but won't comment further...
...group's core is the lifetime friendship of business partners George Shapiro and Howard West, who first worked together as camp lifeguards in the Poconos and then in 1955 started in the mail room at New York City's William Morris Agency. Since 1974, they've been partners in Shapiro/West & Associates, a firm based in Beverly Hills, Calif., that produces films and TV shows and has managed such performers as Reiner, Jerry Seinfeld and the late Andy Kaufman...