[Alissa]

The December article, not yet generally available, is an excerpt from Mapes' soon-to-be-publihsed book, "Truth and Duty" (St. Martin's) on her career and the episode often called Rathergate. Vanity Fair says Mapes sets out to "answer her critics."

Just wondering if anyone at FR was contacted by Vanity Fair to dispute her side or is this just another one-sided media hit-piece? (I know, rhetorical question.)

[GraceCoolidge]

She claims that a researcher has since shown her typography on other documents from the period Bush was in the Guard that suggest that the memos she obtained can not be easily dismissed "as being forgeries."

Speaking of "answering her critics," that researcher would be who? And those "other documents" are available for viewing where?