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The Biggest Who-Dun-It in Texas Since Who Shot Jr.

Written by Derek Brigham on 21 September 2004.

King over at SCSU Scholars asks this:
Following Dan Rather's "apology" today on the CBS Evening News, who do you believe is responsible for actually fabricating the forged documents faxed from Abilene, Texas?
He offers several of the likely suspects. I guessed this way and why...

h) Mary Mapes, Texas-based producer of CBS News.
Call me crazy, but I think Mapes and possibly Rather's daughter got someone to create this. Burkett strikes me as a slow toad who could not have even thrown together these sub-par forgeries. And the fact that these are leftist women, I think their total disconnect with the military would help explain how out-of-touch the letters sound—they just don't sound like how a military man would write.

What do you think?