[danamco]

Setting Mapes up to take the fall. If that happens, I wonder
how she will react and what she would have to say.

They are trying to CYA for the sKerry campaign that if exposed would be worse than Watergate

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..CYA for the sKerry campaign that if exposed would be worse than Watergate"

Certainly, it would devastate the Kerry campaign, but Mapes has a very limited time window if she gets mad and wants to retaliate if she is fired. At the same time they could try to drag their "independent investigation" on until after the election if they think the public would stand for it and that is a stretch.