Power Line's Johnson Falsely Claimed Panel Found ANG Documents Were Forged

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Power Line's Johnson Falsely Claimed CBS Panel Found Bush Air National Guard Documents Were Forged

On the November 13 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources, Scott Johnson, a fellow at the conservative Claremont Institute and a contributor to the right-wing weblog Power Line, falsely claimed that the independent panel hired by CBS to investigate the reporting of a September 8, 2004, 60 Minutes Wednesday segment questioning President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service found that documents cited in the 60 Minutes Wednesday story were forgeries. But contrary to Johnson's assertion, the independent panel's report reached no conclusion as to whether the documents were forged....

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1. the ONLY problem was that cbs couldnt prove they were authentic.

we still dont know.

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2. We know for a fact that what the documents portrayed was authentic just

not the documents themselves. Probably were authentic but could not be verified as so but the information they held has been established and not denied.