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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (5234)9/23/2004 11:53:27 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Rather tries to blame his boss.

Todays NYT inside story on Rathergate led with the appointment of the panel. Halfway down is the hottest Rathergate item since the Mapes/Lockhart contact surfaced:
<font size=4><font color=blue>In an interview on Monday, Mr. Rather said that on learning that Ms. Mapes had obtained the documents, he called Mr. Heyward.

"This is not verbatim," Mr. Rather recalled. "But I said: 'Andrew, if true, it's breakthrough stuff. But I need to do something unusual. It may even be
unique. I have to ask you to oversee, in a hands-on way, the handling of this story, because this is potentially the kind of thing that will cause great controversy.'

"He got it. He immediately agreed.''<font size=3>

nytimes.com
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