ratherbiased.com says there’s a war going on at CBS, where some higher-ups want to withhold part of the investigation into Memogate: War at CBS Over Memogate Report.

The New York Post has more gossip on Mary Mapes, who has been trying to convince her bosses that the memos are … yes … fake but accurate:

December 10, 2004 — WITH the CBS News investigation of Memogate almost done, Mary Mapes, the producer who obtained the fake memos used in Dan Rather’s George Bush-bashing report, is fighting to save her job and her reputation. The sleuths at ratherbiased.com report Mapes wrote up a 68-page statement in her own defense and has been lobbying to convince the CBS probers that Rather’s exposé on Bush’s National Guard service was accurate, even if the documents obtained from a crackpot Texas Democrat were bogus. Rather acted preemptively by quitting as the “Evening News” anchor. The big question now is whether CBS News president Andrew Heyward will be forced out when former Associated Press chief Louis Boccardi and former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh finally turn in their report. CBS wouldn’t comment, but an insider said, “In a vacuum of information, this kind of speculation abounds.”