Mary Mapes on CSPAN-2's Book TV

Mary Mapes, former CBS newsie and Dan Rather water carrier, was interviewed by that crypto-fascist Brent Bozell... Her book (Truth & Duty, St. Martins Press) looks interesting to be sure, but the odd confluence of domestic intel dirty tricks and the grimy-filthy fingerprints of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" were also lurking in the woods off the beaten path.

Specifically the closure on any further inquiry into the soft treatment Bush received in the Air Guard since the revelation the memo purported to demonstrate the preferential treatment was shown to be a fake! Shocked! Simply shocked we are!

Those in the know have telegraphed the idea that this "trap" (and subsequent negation of her and Rather) was revenge for their breaking the Abu Ghraib abuse photos on the CBS Evening News...
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/features/10973/
and to be fair...
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/001346.html
(MudVille takes FOREVER to load on dial-up due to all their commercial interests' blather...)

Too bad those photos were not proven to be fakes as well, eh?
Methinks the same black bag cut-n-paste lab near DC also helped create the fake intel on "Niger uranium, Saddam, Iraq, nukes, etc... that helped justify an expansion fo the WoT to Iraq...
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/niger-uranium.php

Also of interest would the the idea that Valerie Plame's CIA front company, notional enterprise, false front, or what-have-you, Brewster Jennings Associates, was tasked with keeping tabs on WMD tech transfer across the globe... too bad that whole op was negated... or was it?
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2005/11/outing-plame-or-outing-brewster.html
Maybe we had an interest in allowing some tech xfer off the radar to certain parties, while plausibly denying assisting folks gain these weapons and/or enabling technologies. All the while being able to say with certainty that we were "doing something" to stop the "bad guys" from getting ahold of it... unless our government does not act or speak with one voice?