Mapes, M

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Rather producer mary mapes had broke abu ghraib (rather had done tough interview of b1 1988 as vp

col killian said tough to sugercoat b2 bad actions as nat guard pilot

harry macdougal said forgeries b/c font too new (not tried; KR organized blogger attack on dan; protege dan bartlett wrangled ex-guard in defense.

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mary_Mapes">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mary_Mapes</a>

Mary Mapes is a senior CBS News producer who "worked on the disastrous 60 Minutes II segment" regarding <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W._Bush%27s_military_service" title="George W. Bush's military service" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George W. Bush's military service</a> and who obtained the dubious <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-09-09bushdocs.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Killian documents</a> "reportedly faxed from a Texas Kinko's." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000525.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[1]</a>

CBS News, owned by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sumner_Redstone" title="Sumner Redstone" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sumner Redstone</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Viacom" title="Viacom" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Viacom</a> multimedia conglomerate, announced January 10, 2005, that it had fired four CBS News employees, including Mapes. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/10/national/main665727.shtml" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mary_Mapes#.22Truth_and_Duty.22" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 "Truth and Duty"</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mary_Mapes#From.3F.3F_.3F_to_Jeff_Gannon_to_Talon_News.2C_Etc." style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 From ? ? ? to Jeff Gannon to Talon News, Etc.</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mary_Mapes#External_links" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 External links</a></li>

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Mary Mapes' "Truth and Duty. The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power" was published November 2005 by St. Martin's Press, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:BookSources/031235195X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 0-312-35195-X</a>.

Information about the book can be found on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://truthandduty.com/truthandduty.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Truth and Duty</a>.com website.

See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rathergate:_Jeff_Gannon_and_Talon_News" title="Rathergate: Jeff Gannon and Talon News" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rathergate: Jeff Gannon and Talon News</a> for the September 13, 17, and 21, 2004, articles.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ratherbiased.com reported September 13, 2004,<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://ratherbiased.com/news/content/view/238/2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[3]</a> that "Talon News reports today that CBS spokesperson <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kelli_Edwards&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kelli Edwards (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Kelli Edwards</a> confirmed to it that Mary Mapes was the CBS representative who obtained the disputed documents that allegedly give details of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George W. Bush</a>'s National Guard service."</li>

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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"CBS producer Mary Mapes is a controversial figure who has made headlines in her own right.</dd>

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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"In 1999 she was threatened with jail time if she did not turn over a transcript and videotape of an interview with the murderer of James Byrd. CBS finally relented and put up an online transcript, but only after CBS News president Andrew Heyward said, 'Journalists cannot be seen as tools of law enforcement or the judicial system.'</dd>

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"Ms. Mapes is also responsible for CBS's reporting on the Abu Ghraib pictures, a story she helped break. According to TV reporter Gail Shister, 'The scoop was the result of more than two months' legwork by 60 II producer Mary Mapes.' In an interview with Charlie Rose, Mapes described how hard she worked to find the incriminating pictures:

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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"'We ended up chasing it, chasing it halfway around the world and back again. Trying not just to chase the rumors of it, but---but to find out what the reality of it. And in the beginning, a lot of it was whispered accounts of pictures that existed somewhere, an investigation that was going somewhere against someone, and we were able luckily to narrow that down and get our hands on the pictures which really gave us our first real hard proof that this was real.'</dd>

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"In the Memogate [i.e. Rathergate] scandal, Mapes played a key role in acquiring the statements of former Guardsmen who served with Bush."

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A close read of the three full-length Jeff Gannon Talon News' articles preserved in SourceWatch as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rathergate:_Jeff_Gannon_and_Talon_News" title="Rathergate: Jeff Gannon and Talon News" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rathergate: Jeff Gannon and Talon News</a> would indicate to any reasonably educated reader that they are broad in scope, apparently well researched, as they contain quotes alleged to be from first-person interviews, well crafted, and, quite possibly, exceed gannon's "journalistic" abilities.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Although all three articles should be thoroughly vetted, the third article contains much accusatory and inflammatory language towards Democrats and those involved in the presidential campaign, pointing this particular article clearly towards the political <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Propaganda" title="Propaganda" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">propaganda</a> camp. This also indicates that, possibly, the preceding two articles were only a "warm up" leading to the "kill" in the third.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Since the September 13, 2004, article was immediately disseminated via the web, various aspects, particularly that regarding Mape's Abu Ghraib "claims" have undergone much scrutiny and criticism. This begs the question: Did "Jeff Gannon" fabricate these and other "facts" as well, particularly to further discredit Mapes and Dan Rather? and, in the case of the third letter, the Democrats as well?</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Note that Kelli Edwards, allegedly Gannon's "source", was not among those "let go" by CBS:</li>

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"Asked to resign were Senior Vice President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Betsy_West&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Betsy West (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Betsy West</a>, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; 60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Josh_Howard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Josh Howard (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Josh Howard</a>; and Howard’s deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mary_Murphy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Murphy (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mary Murphy</a>. The producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, was terminated." [<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/10/national/main665727.shtml" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[4]</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manufactured_journalism" title="Manufactured journalism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">manufactured journalism</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rathergate:Sumner_M.Redstone,George_W.Bush_%26_CBS" title="Rathergate: Sumner M. Redstone, George W. Bush & CBS" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rathergate: Sumner M. Redstone, George W. Bush & CBS</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rathergate.com/index.php?p=222" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Rathergate.com</a> website.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ratherbiased.com/memogate.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Memogate"</a> on RatherBiased.com.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathergate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Killian documents" (redirect from "Rathergate")</a> in the Wikipedia.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Four <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-09-09bushdocs.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">documents</a> allegedly written by Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jeff Gannon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1214528/posts" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"CBS Producer Who Obtained Questionable Guard Documents Identified,"</a> Talon News, September 13, 2004; archived at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Free_Republic" title="Free Republic" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Free Republic</a>.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jeff Gannon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theweekly.com/news/2004/September/17/Rathergate.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"CBS 'Rathergate' Producer Under Pressure from Network,"</a> Talon News, September 17, 2004; archived at The Weekly.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jeff Gannon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/news2004/0904/092104-cbs.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"CBS Apologizes for Using Forged Documents,"</a> Talon News, September 21, 2004; archived at MensNewsDaily.com.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David J. Philip, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-09-21-cbs-producer-mapes_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Spotlight on CBS producer's role in documents flap,"</a> AP, September 21, 2004.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dave Moniz, Kevin Johnson and Jim Drinkard, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-21-cover-guard_x.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"CBS backs off Guard story,"</a> USA Today, September 21, 2004.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Howard Fineman and Michael Isikoff, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5974040/site/newsweek/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Slime Time Live. In your face: Fueled by shadowy cash, the attacks get uglier and uglier. Why the mud's flying so thick and fast,"</a> Newsweek, September 20, 2004.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jennifer Frey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4847-2004Oct3.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Mary Mapes's Darkest Hour. The '60 Minutes' Producer Finds Herself Quite a Story,"</a> Washington Post, October 4, 2004.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">professoraja, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/12/19599/3758" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Dan Rather and Mary Mapes - a story you'll never hear,"</a> Daily Kos, January 12, 2005.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">deborah,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newshounds.us/2005/02/19/whats_hannitys_connection_to_jeff_gannon.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"What's Hannity's Connection To Jeff Gannon?,"</a> News Hounds, February 19, 2005: "It was reported yesterday February 18 by Raw Story that Jaff Gannon bragged to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Free_Republic" title="Free Republic" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Free Republic</a> that he fed information to Hannity on September 10 about Mary Mapes which would discredit Dan Rather's sources on the National Guard story. Hannity started his all out assault on Rather and CBS on the same date."</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lloyd Grove, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/300125p-256914c.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"A Ticking Time Bomb,"</a> New York Daily News, April 15, 2005: "Former '60 Minutes' producer Mary Mapes - who was sacked by CBS News over her role in last fall's President Bush-National Guard document flap - is returning the favor in an angry book to be published in November."</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hunter, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/16/182613/82" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Former CBS Producer Mary Mapes on Air America Tonight,"</a> Daily Kos, November 16, 2005. Audo <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wingsofjustice.com/05/11/woj05023.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">link</a> on Wings of Justice website.</li>

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Mary Mapes (born c. 1956) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">journalist</a> and former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television" title="Television" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">television</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News" title="News" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">news</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_producer" title="Television producer" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">producer</a>. She was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Award" title="Peabody Award" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Peabody Award</a>-winning producer for the American television show <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes" title="60 Minutes" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">60 Minutes</a> (on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">CBS</a> network), from which she was fired for her part in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" title="Killian documents" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Killian documents</a> scandal.

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Mapes grew up with four sisters in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Washington" title="Burlington, Washington" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Burlington, Washington</a> where her family had lived for generations. She graduated from Burlington-Edison High School in 1974 and studied communications and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">political science</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington" title="University of Washington" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of Washington</a>. In the 1980s she worked at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIRO-TV" title="KIRO-TV" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">KIRO-TV</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Seattle</a>. There she also met her husband Mark Wrolstad when she was a producer and he was a reporter. They married in 1987.

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She went to work for CBS News in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dallas</a> in 1989 and joined 60 Minutes Wednesday in 1999, working exclusively as a producer assigned to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather" title="Dan Rather" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dan Rather</a>.

At <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes_II" title="60 Minutes II" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">60 Minutes Wednesday</a>, Mapes produced the story that announced the US military's investigation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prison" title="Abu Ghraib prison" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Abu Ghraib prison</a> scandal, and the story that exposed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" title="Strom Thurmond" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Strom Thurmond's</a> unacknowledged <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-racial" title="Bi-racial" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bi-racial</a> daughter, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essie_Mae_Washington" title="Essie Mae Washington" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Essie Mae Washington</a>, winning a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Award" title="Peabody Award" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Peabody Award</a> in 2005 for the former.

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Mary Mapes produced a segment for 60 Minutes Wednesday that aired criticism of President George W. Bush's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_military_service_controversy" title="George W. Bush military service controversy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">military service</a>, supported by documents purportedly from the files of Bush's commanding officer, the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B Killian. Those documents had been delivered to CBS from Bill Burkett, who was a retired Lt. Colonel with the Texas Army National Guard. During the segment, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather" title="Dan Rather" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dan Rather</a> asserted that the documents had been authenticated by document experts, but ultimately, CBS could neither confirm nor definitively refute their authenticity. Morever, CBS did not have any original documents, only faxed copies, as Burnett claimed to have burned the originals.

After the report was aired, it was immediately the subject of harsh criticism, primarily from the blogosphere, primarily due to the allegation that some of the documents referenced in the report were forgeries. As a result of the controversy over the use of the documents, CBS ordered an independent internal investigation. The panel in charge of investigation was composed of former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Pennsylvania" title="Governor of Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">governor of Pennsylvania</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">United States Attorney General</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Thornburgh" title="Dick Thornburgh" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dick Thornburgh</a>and retired president and chief executive officer and former executive editor of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Associated Press</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Boccardi" title="Louis Boccardi" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Louis Boccardi</a>. The panel investigated the memo scandal, subsequently dubbed "Memogate" or "Rathergate." Following the investigation, Mapes and others involved were accused of lapses in judgement and were fired.

Among the allegations in the 60 Minutes report were that Bush, the son of an ambassador, Congressman and future President, had received preferential treatment in passing over hundreds of applicants to enlist in the Texas Air National Guard in order to avoid being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam after he had graduated from Yale in 1968. Then-Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes had admitted making phone calls to get Bush into the Guard, as he claimed to have done for the children of several other influential Texans.

The Thornburgh/Boccardi report, however, stated that some of Bush's former instructors or colleagues had told Mapes that Bush had told them that he wanted to go to Vietnam, but that he could not go because there were others ahead of him with more seniority. Mapes was criticized for failing to air them in the 60 Minutes Report to balance the claim that Bush had enlisted in the Guard to avoid serving in Vietnam.

Mapes was also faulted for calling <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lockhart" title="Joe Lockhart" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Joe Lockhart</a>, a senior official in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Kerry</a> campaign, prior to the airing of the piece, and offering to put her source,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Burkett" title="Bill Burkett" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bill Burkett</a>, in touch with him. The panel called Mapes’ action a "clear conflict of interest that created the appearance of political bias." Mapes was terminated by CBS on January 10, 2005. Also asked to resign were Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs;60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer Josh Howard; and Howard’s deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy.

Mapes herself continues to deny any wrongdoing. She said that the authenticity of the documents had been corroborated by an unnamed key source and that journalists often have to rely on photo-copied documents as the basis for verifying a story. Further, Burkett admitted lying to Mapes and the 60 Minutes team regarding the source of the documents. Further, she suggested that she would have preferred to do more work on the story, but that her superiors, including CBS News president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Heyward" title="Andrew Heyward" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Andrew Heyward</a>, pushed for the story to be aired on September 8. Mapes later claimed that she was the victim of a right-wing Internet smear campaign, and is dismissive of opinions that the Killian Documents are forgeries.

Karl Rove, assistant to President George W. Bush, called Mapes' work "the gift that keeps on giving" due to the story's lurid foundations and the apparent boost it gave to President Bush during his reelection campaign.

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In 2005, Mapes published a book, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she defends her record. Her view is that she was sacrificed when CBS caved in, without a proper investigation, to right-wing attacks as reported by its competitors without due diligence.

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