K&LNG's Dick Thornburgh Files Report With CBS, Concluding Examination of 60 Minutes Wednesday Segment

January 10, 2005

Washington, DC—Dick Thornburgh, Of Counsel to Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP and former United States Attorney General, and co-panellist Louis D. Boccardi, retired president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press, completed their independent review of the September 8, 2004 reporting and broadcast of the 60 Minutes Wednesday program regarding President George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service.

The findings of Thornburgh and Boccardi were submitted to CBS on January 5, 2005 in the “Report of the Independent Review Panel on the September 8, 2004 60 Minutes Wednesday Segment “For the Record” Concerning President Bush’s Texas Air National Guard Service.”

Below are links to the Report, exhibits and appendices, all of which are in PDF format. Please be sure to allow adequate time for the files to download.

• Full CBS Report

Transcripts of 60 Minutes Wednesday and CBS Evening News Broadcasts Regarding the September 8 Segment:

• Exhibit 1A (208 KB)
• Exhibit 1B (484 KB)
• Exhibit 1C (122 KB)
• Exhibit 1D (237 KB)
• Exhibit 1E (70 KB)
• Exhibit 1F (173 KB)
• Exhibit 1G (116 KB)
• Exhibit 1H (125 KB)
• Exhibit 1I (404 KB)
• Exhibit 1J (166 KB)
• Exhibit 1K (101 KB)
• Exhibit 1L (29 KB)

Documents Received from Leiutenant Colonel Burkett on September 2 and 5, 2004

• Exhibit 2A (17 KB)
• Exhibit 2B (38 KB)
• Exhibit 2C (45 KB)
• Exhibit 2D (61 KB)
• Exhibit 2E (31 KB)
• Exhibit 2F (31 KB)

CBS News Media Segments Regarding the September 8 Segment:

• Exhibit 3A (50 KB)
• Exhibit 3B (813 KB)
• Exhibit 3C (35 KB)
• Exhibit 3D (58 KB)
• Exhibit 3E (39 KB)
• Exhibit 3F (51 KB)
• Exhibit 3G (339 KB)
• Exhibit 3H (365 KB)
• Exhibit 3I (127 KB)
• Exhibit 3J (74 KB)
• Exhibit 3K (30 KB)
• Exhibit 3L (140 KB)

Emily Will e-mail, September 5

• Exhibit 4 (386 KB)

Marcel Matley Handwritten Notes, September 6

• Exhibit 5 (69 KB)

Marcel Matley Typed-Up Handwritten Notes, September 10

• Exhibit 6 (183 KB)

Marcel Matley and James Pierce Draft and Final Letters, September 14

• Exhibit 7 (290 KB)

Dan Rather WCBS Interview, September 20

• Exhibit 8 (525 KB)

Transcripts of Interviews related to the September 8 Segment and related CBS Evening News Reports (attached only to web versions of this report).

• Exhibit 9A (2.20 MB)
• Exhibit 9B (1.61 MB)
• Exhibit 9C (6.30 MB)
• Exhibit 9D (389 KB)
• Exhibit 9E (1.54 MB)
• Exhibit 9F (528 KB)
• Exhibit 9G (2.91 MB)
• Exhibit 9H (523 KB)
• Exhibit 9I (506 KB)
• Exhibit 9J (503 KB)
• Exhibit 9K (727 KB)
• Exhibit 9L (4.12 MB)

Appendicies:

• Appendix 1 (715 KB)
• Appendix 2 (756 KB)
• Appendix 3 (948 KB)
• Appendix 4 (1.37 MB)

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Contacts:
Michael J. Missal, +1.202.778.9302,
James G. Duffy, +1.212.536.3908,

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