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To: DMaA who wrote (70595)	9/15/2004 6:31:37 PM
From: gamesmistress	Respond to of 794197

Here's a likely scenario from JustOneMinute: My Bold Prediction: CBS announces a blue-ribbon commission, as Bill Safire suggested. If it does not include outsiders, the media laughs at the transparent cover-up attempt. Dan Rather will take a leave of absence to assist the commission in its investigation. More media laughter. And what is there to investigate? Initially, the panel will explore the incompetence of Rather and Hewitt: for starters, what sort of warnings the two experts cited by ABC really delivered; why, absent a strong authentication, the show was not delayed; why CBS did not locate Killian's former secretary; why they did not interview either Killian's widow or son. Very quickly, the panel will move on to motive - WTF could Rather have been thinking, given the miserably low level of preparation? Finally, who is the source, and can CBS reveal it? Source protection is not normally invoked to shelter someone who passed forged documents and spoofed the network. Or, as sometime media critic Duncan Black said when it was Jack Ryan being smoked out, "A source lies to you, and you find it out, you burn him. Period". My hunch is that Atrios and other lefties will tell us what comes after the "Period" when they explain why protecting a forger is appropriate. And CBS may try to delay this moment of truth by pretending that, pending their investigation, they are still not clear that they have been duped. Uhh huh. And the final answer may be an attempt by CBS to disintermediate the chain of custody - Bill Burkett will be named as the source, and the question of whether the documents came to CBS via the DNC or MoveOn.org will, they hope, be set aside. As if. In a subsequent news cycle (and that may be a matter of minutes - we are on internet time) any middlmen will proclaim their victim status. My morning call had been to wonder whether Dan Rather would live long enough for CBS to invoke the "announce bad news on Friday" rule. My new call - Rather and the source are out be the end of the week. justoneminute.typepad.com