Still emotionally raw, Dan Rather called his National Guard
story "accurate" during a media forum aired on C-SPAN last night.
He said that "nobody" has proven the obviously doctored Killian
letter to be a forgery. Asked if CBS showed courage, his
favorite trait, during the debacle, he grew silent. He
relied on the Dick Thornburgh white-wash CBS commissioned
to dispute charges of bias. That report, by the way, blamed
"haste" for the botched story. Haste? Over a year later,
Rather still regards the story as true and would do
it again if he could get away with it.Â
