Saturday - September 11, 2004
CYA
I'm going to take the time to point out another
aspect of the CBS forgeries that I think has escaped the notice of most people.
The subject line of one is
"CYA."
First, I don't remember CYA, for
"cover your ass" being a popular acronym until the late 1980's.
But more importantly, why would a man
write a memo to himself on a particular subject, a man who knows how filing
systems work and how documents are retrieved, and put the subject as "CYA"? If
he ever really needed to cover his behind, how would he find this memo, and how
would this memo help in the least bit? How would admitting that he succumbed to
pressure help him?
Of course the pathetic claim is that these came
from the personal files of LtCol Killian. But being personal files, you'd think
they'd be in his personal possession. Yet his widow, the presumed keeper of all
his paperwork, knows nothing of these personal files and further explains that
he could neither type nor did he make personal notes to
himself.So, why would a man who rarely
keeps personal records decide to suddenly that this merited a memo to himself?
Why would he document in writing that he was a weazel and succumbed to illegal
and unethical pressure to give special treatment to the son of an obscure
politician? Pressure from a general that retired 18 months previously, no
less?I will never believe any words
coming out of the mouth of Dan Rather again. If he tells me the sky is blue, I
will seek a second source for his claim. I will never watch CBS news again, and
I fully intend to research all their advertisers and tell them that I will
curtail buying their products until they pressure CBS to replace Dan
Rather.p.s. I learn that I'm not the
first to publicly
question the use of "CYA."
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