Dear CBS and 60 Minutes,
It is my understanding that you were going to air the Niger memo story but then you bumped it for the false memo story. First, the easily recognizable false memos appearing when they did is very suspicious (it looks as if they appeared to discredit the legitimate interview you had on that show). Now it appears that those fake memos also led to the bumping of a much more damning story about war-justifying-fake-memos. It makes me wonder if all the world's fake memos come from Karl Rove. Please assure me that you are not a tool of the right wing and please report to America what you've learned about the Niger memos. Be the first among the main stream press to report the truth again. We're hungry for it.
Thank you
From Moveon.org:
President Bush based his famous and false claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger on a set of crudely forged documents. For the last two years, no one has uncovered who falsified these documents, which lie at the heart of Bush's case for war.
Now, CBS' 60 Minutes program has uncovered new and important revelations about the Bush administration's reliance on the documents. But, in an unprecedented and astonishing move, CBS bumped the report back until after the election, saying it would be "inappropriate" to air the piece when it might interfere with the political season.
It's outrageous that a major TV news outlet would censor an important piece of news for political reasons. Especially since this report has met CBS' standards for accuracy -- it's true. One can only assume that CBS is buckling under pressure from the right -- and that's just plain wrong.
Call CBS and its parent company, Viacom, now, at:
Sumner Redstone, Chairman, Viacom
(212) 258-6000
Les Moonves, Chairman of CBS; co-President & co-CEO, Viacom
(323) 575-2345
Andrew Heyward, President, CBS News
(212) 975-3247 or
(212) 975-4321
If you don't get through, you can write to CBS at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml
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