You can bet the farm that the CBS "investigation" won't go anywhere near the DNC or the Kerry campaign.
My hunch is, with this much blood in the water, they won't be able to hide anything.
BINGO! That is exactly what this past week of foot-dragging and stone-walling by CBS and the Democrats has been all about - - damage control. Look for that unstable simpleton Burkett to take the fall for all of them.
This is really the only remaining issue here for me. If this story isn't tied to the Kerry campaign or the DNC in some way then then I think the story will lose it's legs.
Look at where we stand:
1. No chance (IMHO) of any sort of federal legal action before the election and probably none afterwords.
2. Ditto prosecution at the state or local level based on info in other threads.
3. The likelihood that the chain of custody will never be tracked beyond Kinko's and Burkett. Look at the comments by CBS from the Times article: "Sandy Genelius, a network spokeswoman, said last week, "We are confident about the chain of custody; we're confident in how we secured the documents." And then this from one of CBS's document experts Emily J. Will who confirmed a Newsweek report for the NYT that stated: "a producer had told her that the source of the documents said they had been obtained anonymously and through the mail."
If you add that all up what you get is a deceived CBS, a Burkett that got something in the mail that he believed to be true because he "knew" the story they told was true and he also innocently passed these on to CBS. Burkett will never ever admit (at least until he writes his book) to giving them to the DNC or the Kerry campaign. And without an investigation that would have to be tied to a prosecution of some sort, there is no way to unlock the records at Kinko's that might fill in the blanks and make the connection to the Dems.
Sorry to be so negative but that is the way I see it going.
There is clearly a question of CBS' complicity in this but it also appears that a very serious crime has been committed in an effort to influence a US election. Criminal charges should be filed.