Everyone's got the statement from CBS News President Andrew Heyward.

We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing.

That of course clears nothing up and tells us nothing other than that they've switched from saying ^The Documents are authentic to saying they're "accurate".

There is however an extended statement, a 3 page pdf on CBS's site. It also clears nothing up.

It tells us that Killian's secretary is on 60 Minutes tonight.

It has a section meant to address the procurement of ^The Documents which simply says that they got them from a source they're not willing to identify and that you should trust that Mary Mapes vetted ^The Documents.

In a section about the authentication of ^The Documents they tell us they were examined by Marcel B. Matley, James J. Pierce, Emily Will and Linda James. The latter two came forward yesterday to say they do not vouch for their authenticity, Matley came forward earlier to say that he looked only at the signature on one document. Only Pierce seems to be standing by the authenticity of ^The Documents. They also list typewriter repairman Bill Glennon and "computer software expert" Richard Katz as believing ^The Documents to be authentic. If we consider Glennon and Katz to actually be document experts that would seem to bring the total number of document experts worldwide who believe ^The Documents to be authentic to be 3. That's only half of the people CBS puts forward in this memo.

Then, totally ignoring many, many problems surrounding ^The Documents they simply point out that Bobby Hodges said ^The Documents "reflected issues he and Col. Killian had discussed" and that Gen. Buck Staudt was still powerful after he retired.

They then go on to point out that we shouldn't really be concerned with ^The Documents which would seem to be fake so much as people should be answering the fake questions raised by the fake documents.

A thoroughly unconvincing defense/clarification/explanation.

--Addendum--
Ernest Miller fisks ^The Statement.