Thursday, February 24, 2005

"...They See Your Every Move."

From IMDb:
The Eye Hires a Private Eye

Besides hiring the services of the high-profile former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press chief Louis Boccardi to investigate 60 Minutes' now-discredited report about President Bush's National guard service, CBS hired a private detective to try to track down the source of the questioned documents that formed the basis for the report, the New York Observer reported today (Thursday). The investigator, Erik T. Rigler, a former FBI agent, was unable to do so, the Observer said, running into a dead end with Bill Burkett, the man who had provided the documents to the show's producer, Mary Mapes. CBS confirmed that it had hired Rigler, telling the publication: "To this day, the basic questions about the documents have not been answered, but we remain hopeful that, one day, they will be." The article indicated that while Rigler did not produce a report about the source of the memos, he did provide the network with a report about Mapes, much of it related to her personal life. Commented the Observer: "The fact that CBS had a private investigator looking into its own employee suggests that well before the panel issued any findings, network management had begun to shift its focus away from solving the mystery behind the documents and toward placing the blame for the decision to air the segment."

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