He may be gone, because why would Kerry want to have to deal with it, but this goes on all the time. It is called back scratching. The Kerry campaign is not expected to be fair and balanced, but CBS is.
Certainly nt. Politics is a war but when you get caught in the squirrels nest with nutters you have to pay a political price. Such is life.
"The Kerry campaign is not expected to be fair and balanced, but CBS is."
Indeed. Lockharts's "3-4 minute coversation" with Burkett is by itself unobjectionable. Of course, that's why he copped to it so readily.
What it leaves open is how much he was involved in procuring the documents, coordinating with the 60 Minutes show, what he knew and when he knew it, as the saying goes.
Realistically, Lockhart is a senior communications guy and had to have serious knowledge about the whole set-up with CBS.
I.e. his hands are dirty, we just don't know the facts to indict him. Yet.