CBS News employees are "apprehensive" over the soon-to-be-concluded internal investigation into the network's Rathergate forged document scandal, veteran CBS newsman Bob Schieffer said Thursday.
"We're all apprehensive," he told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Nobody knows what this commission is going to find."
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Schieffer said it was "a terrible mistake" for Rather to air military records, which turned out to be forged, depicting President Bush as AWOL during his days in the National Guard.
"Look, we made a terrible mistake. CBS has admitted it made a terrible mistake, and Dan has apologized," he told the Inquirer. "We take this very seriously, and some serious steps are going to have to be taken."
Two weeks after "60 Minutes" aired the bogus records on Sept. 8, CBS appointed ex-U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi, former head of the Associated Press, to determine what went wrong.
Schieffer told the Inquirer that he's been deluged with questions about the Rathergate debacle during his tour promoting his book, "Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories From the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast."
"Everywhere I've gone, people want to know what we're going to do about it," he said. "I tell them we'll do what needs to be done, once we know what happened. We can't just put Band-Aids on this problem and say we've cured it."
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