Will Mary Mapes roll over on CBS and Dan Rather, be fired from CBS, spill her guts, attain the title of whistle blower and then make it big with her autobiography and talk circuit?

Is it just me..or does anybody else see a resemblance to Eleanor Roosevelt?

I'm just sayin.'

No doubt Mapes is worried; it's not promising that "CBS News spokeswoman Sandy Genelius... said that Mapes, 48, remains on CBS' payroll."

"Remains on the payroll" is HR legalspeak. One suspects Chairman Moonves does not enjoy discovering that underlings have put him in the hotseat.

Oh- and I'm not a religious person, but I wanted to share this Inspiring Expression of Faith with you;

"Everything they said about Bush is true; they just haven't found the evidence yet." - Dale Channer, 34, florist, the Bronx.

This man has been SAVED, from the pesky fetters of empirical evidence.

My Guess;

Mapes is the second line scapegoat (Burkett being the first, of course) in a damage control effort by KE04. Their line is that nutcase Burkett forged the docs and used them as bait to entice Mapes to get him into contact with KE04. That way, then, the extent of KE04's involvement is the phone call from Lockhart to Burkett.

Of course that leaves unanswered questions about the coordination of the AWOL media campaign, as well as evidence that KE04 had the memos by April. But the memos aren't important; the important thing is Bush's failed Iraq war and by the way Bush liiieeed.

Ace,

I think you're correct, Rather just bought himself another minute or three on the retirement watch. This, despite Rather being quoted yesterday that he does not believe the memos to be forgeries!

Wow.

And yes, I think Thales is also correct. Mapes and Burkett will be offered for sacrifice by the DNCBS Central Committee. This of course assumes that Mapes and Burkett will drink the Kool-Aid offered them.

This is a huge gamble for the DNCBS, also assuming that neither Congress or a truly independent agency ever investigates this with the power of subpoena.

I question the timing of SeeBS's leaking of her age.

Hey, I had this crap by 3am, along with this article.

"Pluperfect Patsy Tense"

Yeah, my homeschooling kid will have been working on that for a week starting tomorrow. Kind of tricky.

Fox is reporting Mapes got in serious trouble 3 years ago for offering a white supremacist in prison a deal in exchange for an interview.

She was banned from ever going into Federal Prisons again for interviews after her stunt.

The quid pro quo was she would take give the inmate a CBS address he could write a priveledged letter to (prison staff can't open letters directed to lawyers or official media), then she would mail the letter to another white supremacist at another prison under the "priviledged" status of a CBS media letter that can't be opened.

Prison staff surrupticiously (but legally) monitoring her conversation with the convict uncovered the plot. A letter of banning and admonition was written to her and her CBS supervisors. (Not inc. Dan, but another high exec guy who has been defending Mapes as a super ethical reporter in all the MSM was identified.

Cedarford--

I did a story on a work-release center years ago. For some reason, an inmate decided to tell me his woes one afternoon, how life at the center was unfair, etc. I felt sorry for him. The next day the warden asked me why I was talking to the guy. The whole place was bugged.

Now that was when I was in college, age 22. Presumably Mapes would know better at age 45. Guess not.