"OR...he's deliberately sabotaging the kerry candacy for a Bush win."
It's possible, but there are two reasons why I think not. First, Kerry's candidacy is already pretty much in the toilet, why bust your own career for a long shot at further tanking it. Second, if you wanted to sabotage Kerry, there would be so many more direct and certain ways to do it. Don't you think these Dem operatives already know some things about Kerry that the Swift Boat vets are about to release, and maybe other damaging stuff as well? All they would need to do is leak some of those things.
I think this episode was about more than Kerry, I think it was a try by CBS and the DNC at sabotaging the whole Republican party, including and especially Bush. If you hit Bush, you hit all Republicans, and that's what they want to do.
Also, it's possible they're trying to keep it close, so that they can use that battalion of lawyers who can tie everything up in litigation, and also so that vote fraud can do its work.
Make the Republicans look bad, that's the whole rationale from here on in.
I think there is more to this in the Kerry camp that most would know. Mary Beth Cahill has to be feeling squeezed by Sasso, Begala, Carville and Lockhart. CBS is keeping Mapes firmly under wraps, as the Kerry campaign has done with Cahill. I can't help but feel that she's not secretly smiling at the discomfiture of the Clintonistas.