[ladyinred]

What an incredible piece of info. So Rather was hoping for an exclusive interview with the evil enemy of our nation? And you can bet this piece of work would have "protected his source" had he met with osama! Sheesh!

[beaversmom]

Oh I can see the interview now with Osama: Hello your Holiness. It is such an honor to meet with you. Thank you so much for granting me this interview your Holiness.

[piasa]

I think the Osama interview was a sideshow to distract from the real purpose- to create a story and create video designed to make US forces look bad. The CBS camera crew wasn't sitting around in this guy's private jail to find Osama. They wer staging a soap opera for bleedinghearts, IMHO :

One freelance journalist working in Afghanistan, who declined to be identified, said that CBS staffers had expressed concern that they might be implicated in Mr. Idema’s case because, in fact, they knew what they were looking at.

"Their satellite engineer came over: ‘Oh my God, I’m going to be arrested,’" recalled the journalist. "They had been feeding this material to CBS. They had been feeding into their London bureau footage of Jack’s detention center and of him capturing and interrogating people about 10 days to two weeks before he was arrested."

Asked if a CBS employee had been on the premises of Mr. Idema’s jail, the network spokesman said, "Even if he was there, he’s just there to make sure the tape is O.K. He just sends the feed. It doesn’t mean they’re in cahoots with this guy. It doesn’t mean CBS knew what was in this footage. His job was just to make sure it was fed to London and that’s all."