Regrets, they have a few. Around CBS last week, there was a lot of second-guessing about how it handled its own Memogate. Yet, at week's end, despite mounting evidence that memos used in a 60 Minutes report alleging a young George W. Bush received preferential treatment when he was in the National Guard during the Vietnam War were forgeries, CBS News continued to stand by its report. As information countering the veracity of the documents kept surfacing last week, morale at the venerable news organization took a nosedive. "We're in a total state of shock that our people are out there, whether it's Dan Rather or anybody else, saying it doesn't matter if the memos are real if the story is true," says one CBS News insider. "There were too many problems with those memos for them ever to have been used, and it gets clearer with each day that red flags were being raised about [the memos] all along."
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