Please clarify that point. The article says that Mapes advised CBS on Sept 3 that her source had given her the documents. But if the documents were faxed to CBS from Kinkos on the 2nd ...
Anyway, the details escape me there.
I believe they were faxed at 6:41 pm on the 2 ND, she probably go then the next am.
I stumbled on that one at first. It's not immediately apparent.
But the time/date stamp on the faxes was reportedly 6:41 PM on September 2 (a Thursday). They were faxed to a NYC phone number (212-xxx-1998, as I recall). They would have arrived at 7:41 PM EDT, well after business hours.
My guess is that Mapes came into the office on the morning of Sept 3, retrieved the faxes, and immediately alerted her superiors.
Or it could be that Mapes picked up the hard copies on Thursday, faxed a copy to herself in NYC (as insurance), then took a night owl from DFW back to NYC. Or, perhaps, Mapes was in Dallas and got a duplicate fax Thursday evening, alerting NYC on Friday morning.
If we knew exactly when Mapes met with Burkett, it would help. But there is no shortage of logical scenarios explaining the 9/2 faxing, 9/3 alerting timetable.