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BUSH BASHERS GET CBS NOOSE - * 3 EXECS AND STAR PRODUCER FIRED * SCATHING REPORT MOSTLY SPARES DAN
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[Bobby Hodges] also said he complained to [Dan Rather] and [Mary Mapes] two days after the segment aired that the documents were fakes. But neither Rather nor Mapes asked why he thought so - or passed the red-flag information on to others at CBS, the report said. Sept. 2, 2004: Producer Mary Mapes meets with Lt. Col. [Bill Burkett], who gives her two documents. He says they came via mail from an anonymous source. CBS moves up air date for the [BUSH] National Guard story from Sept. 29 to Sept. 8. Sept. 6: Mapes calls Maj. Gen. Bobby Hodges - the superior of Lt. Col. [Jerry Killian], who purportedly ordered Bush to take a physical that the future president did not take. She read documents over phone to Hodges. Mapes stops trying to find [George Conn.] Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
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