by Mark Finkelstein June 7, 2006 There comes a point at which denial drifts into delusion, and Mary Mapes has crossed it. Incredibly, she is out with a Huffington Post piece calling the assertion of the irrefutable fact that the Rathergate documents were blatant forgeries a 'lie.' Excerpts: "[Critics] claimed that CBS used forged documents and they repeated that lie so often that it stuck. The mainstream media picked it up, repeating bloggers' criticisms without making any serious effort to investigate the story." "As for document analysis, it is a mind-numbing and arcane discipline, an imperfect undertaking reserved for courtroom...