Rather -- "If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story." 
Mary Mapes
There was much more said - I was not going to post, but I saw that no one else did, so please add more info with names as they become available!
hmmm...deja vu moment for me....has this prisoner story been talked about in the past before???
Mapes was accused by the prison warden of offering to intercept a letter sent to someon at CBS by this one inmate, extract the contents and send it in a protective mailing from CBS to another inmate. Since the leters were sent as protected, the prison wouldn't be allowed to read them. Evidently the warden caught this being discussed over the phone. The warden sent an angry letter to CBS, so they knew about this.
".... Mapes holds strong liberal views."
whodathunk it?
They transferred "Corn Fed" to Colorado?
Mapes acted as mediator between two prisoners receiving protected letters, which was against prison policy.
Story was done by FNC's Brian Wilson, not Carl Cameron. She was caught on tape working out a deal with a prisoner in CO to pass a note to another prisoner, using her position of reporter to avoid the usual security procedures that screened prisoner mail. Had her interview and communication priveleges with the prison revoked, and a letter of protest sent from the head of prisons to the CBS executive who yesterday was gushing over her integrity, claiming he had no clue that she would ever make such a mistake of judgement(so he was outed as a liar, too.)
What she did:
During telephone calls with a prisoner in a Colorado prison, she agreed to intercept mail he would send to a legal person at CBS (because the prison wouldn't read that) and she would send it from the legal department at CBS to a prisoner who is at a different location.
Apparently, he was not supposed to correspond with this guy and this was his and Mapes illegal way of circumventing the prison system.
They found out because the call was recorded and sent letters to CBS, her boss and basically forbid her from any correspondence with the prisoner again.
Is the prisoner's name Lucy Ramirez?? :)
Will stay tuned for the panel discussion....
In The Grapevine, Brit has info on a connection between Dan Rather and one of the guys 'employed' to investigate him.
....coming up...
Are we certain this wasn't simply a prison romance?
Hard to see how either morsel of news is important.
Rather -- "If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story."
Mary Mapes
Boccardi is an old friend of Rather's.
Rather recently gave a glowing intro to Boccardi at a recent dinner both attended.
[Shades of Gorelick on the 9-11 Committee]
Mapes was the producer of the Sixty Minutes II show that interviewed the third white man involved in the dragging murder in Texas. Mapes was ordered to be held in contempt of court for not turning over the unedited tapes to the prosecutor.
The Supermax in Colorado? Where McVeigh was held and the Unabomber is residing?
Holy crap.
Wonder if CBS sent Anthrax to itself too.
Mary Mapes=THE ENEMY WITHIN!
(w thanks to M Savage)
...a member of Clinton's administration no doubt