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Bernard Goldberg

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Bernard Goldberg will discuss what was previously a little-mentioned part of a now famous report from 2005. In focus: the 234-pages long report from a CBS-commissioned panel to look into the 2004 60 Minutes II "Memo Gate" story about President Bush's military service, reported by Dan Rather and produced by Mary Mapes.

"Until now, Goldberg" bernardgoldberg.com writes about "the controversy over Rather / Mapes story is centered almost exclusively on one issue: the legitimacy of the documents [view report] - a very important issue, yes. But it turns out that there was another very important issue which goes to the heart of what the story was about - and one that has gone almost unnoticed ...."

Goldberg says he got a tip from a "source, Deep Throat style, [who] told me, 'Go to page 130 [of the panel's report ordered]." "What was on page 130?

"Mapes had information prior to the delivery of 8 September [2004] Segment President Bush, while in TexANG [Texas Air National Guard] had volunteered for service in Vietnam but was rejected in favor of more experienced pilots. For example, a flight director who served in TexANG with Lieutenant Bush advised Mapes in 1999 that Lieutenant Bush had wanted to go to Vietnam, but others went first. "Similarly, several other advised Mapes in 1999, and again in 2004, before 8. September that Lieutenant Bush had volunteered to travel to Vietnam but did not have enough flight hours to qualify. "
Goldberg notes that this point was mentioned at a few sites, and in two newspaper opinion pieces (in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Miami Herald). "But that was it!" he says.

"If [Mapes] knew that George Bush had volunteered for service in Vietnam," Goldberg writes, "She obviously had an obligation to share it with her viewers."

"Now the question is," Goldberg continues, "she share what she knew with his correspondent, Dan Rather ... What did however know - and when he knew it?"

Both spot and Mapes is on the album as a criticism of the panel's report from 2005, indicating the site of his 2007 lawsuit against CBS, the network and its executives made him "a scapegoat". The court, in its current form, continues to make his way through the courts today, almost five years after the original 60 Minutes II story aired.

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