CBS also turned its own reporter James Sanders into the FBI when Sanders acquired a piece of fabric from TWA 800 and had it analyzed for missile fuel residue. Sanders gave a sample to CBS to independently verify, but CBS turned it over to the FBI and Sanders was arrested, tried, and convicted of stealing aircraft wreckage.
Sanders' arrest added to the conspiracy theories that CBS was providing cover for the Clinton administration's center fuel tank explosion explanation.
-PJ
Sanders believed the party line that Project Mockingbird no longer existed.
Some lessons can only be learned the hard way.