Word: crile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that triggered a much publicized libel suit by General William Westmoreland. (Though Stringer did not have a major hand in the documentary, Westmoreland's lawyers revealed that in an off-the-record talk with a reporter he had voiced doubts about the objectivity of the program's producer, George Crile...
...believe I quote accurately when I say that in an internal CBS memorandum, producer George Crile wrote about "breaking Westmoreland." Do you think his choice of words reveals a certain malice or lack of objectivity...
...Crile doesn't publish by himself. Crile has me to deal with. He has his associate producer to deal with. He has his superior editors to deal with. He's got to prove every fact that's in that broadcast. The fact of the matter is, that when push came to prove in that courtroom under oath, it turned out that every fact in that broadcast was accurate...
...Guide article prompted Sauter, then president of CBS News and now its corporate overseer, to order an investigation by Senior Producer Burton Benjamin. Benjamin sternly criticized the methods of the show's producer, George Crile, but did not address most questions about substance. CBS announced that it "stood by the broadcast," and Westmoreland condemned that stance as a "whitewash." Although he had been counseled by former colleagues not to sue because a public figure was unlikely to win a libel trial, Westmoreland accepted the offer of Capital Legal Foundation to represent him; much of the $2 million cost...
When CBS Attorney David Boies presented the network's case, the initiative shifted dramatically. A succession of current and former Central Intelligence Agency officers stated that estimates of enemy troops had been tainted by politics. Producer Crile offered an impressive point-by-point explication of the evidence for each assertion in the program. In the most dramatic moment, Westmoreland's former intelligence chief and close friend, retired Major General Joseph McChristian, testified that his boss had "improperly" held back a cable about high troop estimates because it would cause a "political bombshell" in Washington...