[Fatalis]

Vietnam is a ruthless, dictatorial society. People are not free to speak freely. Koppel knows this. When the guy can't even kid himself and looks like a man caught with a forgery in his hand as they go to commercial break, that's a low point in any man's career. He set himself up because he was so in for Kerry.

This is from the transcript you posted at #14:
(Do you have an original link for the transcript?)

Koppel (:55): Mr. O'Neill . . uh . . maybe we're going to be able to do something more.
This was the place that we were brought to.

O'Neill: I-I invite you to, sir.

Koppel: This is the place we found. Let me go, just for this evening, and ask you . .

O'Neill: It's the third time you've covered it.

So which is it? Was ABC brought to that place or did they find it? If they were brought there, who brought them?

[sevry]

Brought to and then, found? I know. Which is it, right? I seem to recall in the setup piece that he talked about matching the three digits grid coordinates from the reports with the hamlet. So - brought? What's the intended distraction? He already said they knew where they were going.

The whole story seems conveniently fabricated. It's almost as if they assumed something that wasn't true. To get a gotcha moment on O'Neill, they thought to discredit his own book, and his own account. But somebody didn't mention to ABC or the Communist Vietnamese that on this, at least, O'Neill was relying on Kerry's own testimony in two different books, where he was involved in crafting both. The question O'Neill just never got out was, in my opinion - Ted, why are you asking me? Ask John Kerry!