I just heard on MSNBC that USA Today is reporting more on the connection between Rather, Mapes, and Kerry's new hired gun, Joe Lockhart (emphasis mine):
Lockhart, the former press secretary to President Clinton, said a female producer talked to him about the 60 Minutes program a few days before it aired on Sept. 8. She gave Lockhart a telephone number and asked him to call Bill Burkett, a former Texas National Guard officer who gave CBS the documents. Lockhart couldn't recall the producer's name. But CBS said Monday night that it would examine the role of producer Mary Mapes in passing the name to Lockhart.That's quid pro quo, jackson. And that makes CBS News a propaganda arm of the Kerry campaign.
Burkett told USA TODAY that he had agreed to turn over the documents to CBS if the network would help arrange a conversation with the Kerry campaign.
I know this has nothing to do with Halliburton or Abu Ghraib, but pay attention, anyway, comrades. Pay lots of attention.