CBS Hired Detective, Muzzled Rather

From NewsMax.com. Get this: in the middle of seating that "independent panel," CBS hired a private investigator, ostensibly to find out where the Killian Memoranda came from. Of course, the investigator traced them to Bill Burkett, but went no further. But worse than that, all the investigator did was to send in a two-page memo that was a smear of Mary Mapes--on totally irrelevant grounds, and all of them under the heading of "private business."

Now I don't sympathize with Mary Mapes or Dan Rather. After all, they didn't have to run with that story, and they should have known that they had forged documents from the start. But I abominate "fixers"--and that's what this private eye is: a "fixer."

Anyone out there looking for a job in broadcast news, I wouldn't advise you to go to CBS.