CBS admits misled over Bush memos

In a blow to its credibility, CBS News said on Monday that it had been misled over the authenticity of documents it aired in a story challen...

In a blow to its credibility, CBS News said on Monday that it had been misled over the authenticity of documents it aired in a story challenging US President George W. Bush’s military service and announced it was mounting an internal investigation.

‘‘Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in a report,’’ CBS News said in a statement. ‘‘We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.’’

In a separate statement, anchor Dan Rather apologised for what he called a ‘‘mistake in judgment’’ and said CBS News had been misled on the key question of how its source for the documents had obtained the papers.

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The report relied in large part on four memos purported to be from the personal file of Bush’s squadron commander, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, who died 20 years ago.

The memos said that Killian was under pressure to “sugar coat” the record of the young Lt. Bush and that the officer had disobeyed a direct order to take a physical.

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