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YUP, RATHER IS TALKING TO THE SECRETARY
Score one for my sources that I can't name.
Howard Kurtz, who has just kicked tushie on this story since Day One, is on CNN now, and confirms that Rather is interviewing 86-year-old Marian Carr Knox, former secretary to Lt. Col. Jerry Killian.
Does this mean CBS is sticking by the memos? Or are they going to concede on the memos, and somehow try to insist that the attention should now shift to Bush's insufficient answers to the questions raised by the fake memos?
UPDATE: I now have a new theory. Drudge reported last... Thursday night, I think, that CBS was launching an internal investigation. Rather came out Friday afternoon and said there was no truth to that, that no investigation was being launched.
This prompted some speculation that Drudge's source was someone in CBS News who supported the idea of an internal investigation, and who was trying to build support for the idea. A producer of 48 Hours or Face The Nation or the original 60 Minutes, say. Someone who would want to pressure the network's suits to check into Rather's story.
What if this person within CBS, a foe of Rather, is the one telling reporters to expect a statement?
Nah, CBS would have shot down the discussion of an impending statement or "clarification" the way Rather shot down the "internal investigation" story.
UPDATE: Many readers suggest that Rather's defiant interview to the New York Observer has forced CBS to push back whatever announcement, statement or clarification they were going to issue today.
[Posted 09/15 05:32 PM]
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