More than a week after CBS News released its ostensibly final, tortured, novella-length report on the suspicious-document scandal at 60 Minutes Wednesday, some basic matters in the case are even less settled than before—starting with the fate of the four employees the network singled out for dismissal on Jan. 10. Producer Mary Mapes, who was fired, has released a statement saying that she had done nothing wrong in preparing the Sept. 8, 2004, report or in the aftermath. And the three staffers who CBS asked to resign—executive producer Josh Howard, his top deputy Mary Murphy, and CBS News senior vice...
