This article targets her very directly. They make several efforts to point out her mistakes (gathering the doc, verifying the doc, ignoring her experts, telling Heyman and the lawyers it was OK at the last minute. They've pinned this on her and I'm beginning to think Dan may survive but she is finished.
Mary Mapes is behind this fevered rush job to bring this to television. She's the producer of this segment looking for a big notch on her belt. She had a lot more to gain from it's success than Dan Rather. Mapes is working her way up the CBS food chain.
You might be right, but I doubt that fixes the problem. Nobody but us news junkies knows a thing about Mapes - I knew ZERO about her until this week. THis blow-up needs either a big fish, or a public fish. Heyward, or Rather, or both have to go. Mapes will go too, but that won't be enough.