Guest Blogger Dan Rather

I'd like to introduce today's guest blogger, Dan Rather. Seems he's suffered a DDOS at his normal site hosted by CBS, so needed a temporary perch. Over to you, Dan:

Good evening.

"powerful and extremely well-financed forces are concentrating on questions about the documents."

"[I] was not aware before the September 8 broadcast of Lieutenant Colonel Burkett’s notoriety."

When Rather mentioned documents, he [Heyward] told Rather that they had to make sure the documents were real. He said that Rather responded, 'Of course.'"

"60 Minutes has now obtained a number of documents we are told were taken from Lieutenant Colonel Killian’s personal files . . . . We consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic."

"Today, on the Internet and elsewhere, some people, including many who are partisan political operatives, concentrated not on the key questions and the overall story but on the documents that were part of the support of the story."

"If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story. Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this is what went wrong and how it went wrong.'"

"We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism."

"The facts are right on the money."

"We're off the air."