WASHINGTON— House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) today called on CBS News to retract its September 8 story calling President Bush’s National Guard record into question. According to numerous press reports, CBS based its reporting on documents that it cannot prove are factual. Blunt also asks CBS to reveal the identities of the people he says have used the network “to deceive [its] viewers in the final weeks of a presidential election.”
“To date, CBS’s response to the specific and devastating criticisms of the accuracy of its reporting has been to question the motives of its critics, to offer half-truths in its own defense, to refuse to disclose crucial evidence, and to circle the wagons,” Blunt writes.
Blunt gathered 40 signatures of his colleagues on the letter sent to CBS President Andrew Heyward today.