I've always thought that Dan Rather's report was accurate...

[A Black Falcon]

Given that there's absolutely no evidence to support any other position, unless the Bush Administration suppresses it somehow (like how they managed to keep Dick Cheney from being charged with leaking Valerie Plame's name to the press, an illegal act he most certainly ordered or did), it's the only logical outcome.

ABF, I'm sorry but GR's right on here. Saying "it fits in with what I know about him" is not evidence in any way that the documents are real. Maybe they are, and we might find out, but taking a default position of "it's true until someone falsifies it" is the very essence of anti-science.

How about we try this again...

If that were true, Bush would have simply denied the charges. Instead, he used a narrower excuse, that the documents had been faked. He didn't say "it's not true", he said "those aren't real documents"... and then failed to either provide any evidence that the charges weren't true or prove that the documents were faked. And yet everyone believed them anyway. Huh?

Why anyone at all would believe the Bush Administration on this is beyond me, that's for sure.

And in addition, Dan Rather, one of the great television journalists of recent decades, wouldn't be spending millions of dollars on this if he thought his report wasn't accurate. But the first point is a stronger one, I think.