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Posted on 09/13/2004 6:13:42 AM PDT by jmstein7
You are exactly right about that. If it comes down to it, she's going down for the Dan. This "producer" probably had the memo dumped off in her lap by Terry McAwful and the DNC.
"who gave Mary the documents?"
Exactly. Identifying who "obtained" the documents is hardly the end of the story.
My, my. The CBS fax number is at the top of the various documents. I certainly hope it isn't abused by anyone.
She got them directly from the Kerry campaign, who got them in turn from the DNC. Where the DNC got them is unknown.
And anther question EVERYONE should be asking is why did See?BS, the Kerry campaign, and the DNC ignore everyone who told them that the documents could be forgeries? The answer is of course, because it was part of their co-ordinated smear campaign for that week. And unfortunately for them, every single one of their smears were conclusively prove to be outright lies.
BTW, is Kitty Kelly still going to be on GMA this week?
If they're proven to be forgeries??? I think that's already been done. What standard needs to be met to declare them "officially" forgeries?
Perharps there is no way to declare them "officially" forged, but it's a moot point by now. They are forged and the case has been made in spades.
"But more likely it would be Mapes who would take the fall along with Janet Leissner, the Washington Bureau Chief for CBS News"
Well, it certainly looks suspicious to me. The "Old Boys" are blaming the girls. Tsk tsk tsk.
Double Ping
| NMU | TEXAS | Confidentiality/Privilege | Nov 5, 1999 |
CBS news producer Mary Mapes was granted a last-minute emergency appeal and avoided an order to report to Jasper County Jail by 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5 for refusing to turn over outtakes of the network's "60 Minutes II" interview with alleged murderer Shawn Allen Berry.
Mapes' attorney filed an emergency appeal with the Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin, and the court ordered the trial judge in Jasper to respond to the motion by Monday, Nov. 8. Mapes posted a $2,000 bond as part of the appeal and will not have to report to jail.
Mapes was subpoenaed and ordered to appear before a state court in Jasper and to bring with her outtakes and unedited portions of an interview between CBS anchorman Dan Rather and Berry. Berry is one of the men charged in the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr. Mapes challenged the subpoena on the grounds that she has never possessed or controlled the tapes.
When she failed to hand over the interview tapes on Nov. 2, the court held her in contempt. However, the effective date of the court's ruling was postponed until after Nov. 4, when a state appellate court in Beaumont reviewed the ruling against Mapes.
CBS anchorman Dan Rather also was subpoenaed in late October to testify at Berry's murder trial.
The trial court in Jasper approved the subpoena of Rather, found that he is a "material and necessary witness," and ordered him to be present at the trial for about two weeks starting Nov. 9.
On Nov. 5, however, a New York City trial judge heard arguments from CBS objecting to the demand for Rather's testimony. Prosecutors dropped their request for Rather's presence at the trial. The trial judge did not rule on whether it will order Rather to turn over the tapes, but will try to rule by Nov. 12, according to CBS.
The interview occurred in late September, when Rather interviewed Berry for the CBS program "60 Minutes II." Berry, charged with the June 7, 1998 killing of Byrd, admitted in the interview that he was present on the road where Byrd was chained to the bumper of his pickup truck, but he could not stop his co-defendants, John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer, from beating Byrd because he was threatened by King when he tried to help Byrd.
(Texas v. Berry)
That's because they have an agenda and his name is George W. Bush. They want to destroy him. It ain't gonna happen.
CBS turns over interview with murder defendant
November 10, 1999 Web posted at: 10:58 PM EST (0358 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- To keep a producer [Mary Mapes] from being thrown into jail, CBS News on Wednesday turned over the transcript of an interview that Dan Rather conducted with the third defendant being tried for murder in the dragging death of a black man.
The trial of Shawn Allen Berry, 24, got under way in Jasper, Texas, on Wednesday after a judge refused a defense request for a change of venue.
Two other men, white supremacists John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer, already have been convicted and sentenced to die for chaining James Byrd Jr. by his ankles to a pickup truck and dragging him along a country road until his body was torn apart
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