Assuming there are intelligent adults at CBS, they have fallen on a grenade to protect Kerry.
"Assuming there are intelligent adults at CBS, they have fallen on a grenade to protect Kerry."
Kerry is not a person to inspire that kind of devotion. It would take either a very charismatic leader (which he is not) or a load of, say, FBI files for blackmail purposes. And even then - the chain bursts at its weakest link - someone with smaller stake in it will start singing.