[Travis McGee]

He added, "We in management had no sense that the producing team wasn't completely comfortable with the results of the document analysis.''

Sounds like they're getting ready to throw Rather off the train.

[DameAutour]

No, I don't think it will be Rather. After reading the Washington Post article it seems like it will be Mary Mapes who gets thrown off the train.

They seem to be putting full responsibility on Mapes, not only for researching the story for the past five years, but for vetting the documents with experts.

[PhilDragoo]

[torchthemummy]

What always amazed me is that Rather himself anchored the story. He must have thought that the memo story would have the needed authority/vetting if he personally attended to the report. 'Course Rather thought this story could turn the tide but, as anyone here knew from the get-go, that tide of voters beached on Bush Point as opposed to Kerry Cove.

Under the circumstances, I guess a thank-you is in order for the Danster - single-handedly taking down not just CBS but a large amount of the little credibility left within the LMSM.

[Southack]

"Sounds like they're getting ready to throw Rather off the train."

Well, notice that Ms. Mapes *didn't* accompany Dan Rathers out to Texas yesterday to interview Burkett. They sent Ms. West, instead.

So clearly they have pulled Mapes already, which means that *she* is toast no matter how everything else plays out.

But this brings up Mapes' scandal from 5 years ago.

Back in 1999, Ms. Mapes defied a federal judge (you try that one) by refusing to release the interviews tapes (plural) of the 3 men (among others) convicted and sentenced to death for the dragging death of a Black man in Texas while GWB was Governor there. CBS "negotiated" that only the transcripts, written up by CBS, be given to the judge (you try that one), and the judge then spared her from prison for contempt.

That whole "dragging death" was played up politically when it had no political meaning...and yet there was Ms. Mapes ready to go to jail rather than release those interview tapes.

Why was such a radical feminist like Ms. Mapes prepared to go to jail until the 2000 election was over, rather than release those tapes?

They still haven't been released. What the heck is *in* or on those tapes?!

...And in light of "The Wall Within" and the current Mapes/Rather forgery scandal, shouldn't *someone* be asking for those tapes now?!

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