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Article: Statements From CBS News and Dan Rather; Man Who Gave CBS News Disputed Documents Describes How He Obtained Them; In Television Interview, He Admits He Deliberately Misled CBS News Producer.
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- PR Newswire
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- September 20, 2004
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill Burkett, in a weekend interview with CBS News Anchor and Correspondent Dan Rather, has acknowledged that he provided the now-disputed documents used in the Sept. 8 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY report on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. 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 ...