January 26, 2006
Paul Lukasiak
If you happen to went to Penn in the late '90s and read the popular upenn.talk, you will probably find it as so perfectly fitting and as wonderfully funny as I did to discover that Paul Lukasiak has re-emerged into the world, and is claiming credit for leading Mary Mapes of CBS to the Rathergate memos. The humor isn't in the claim, which is entirely believable; it is in the appropriateness of the local campus radical, famous in this small community for a few years for driving everyone away from the causes and spaces he held so dear, has now come back and unintentionally destroyed the career of one of the great public advocates for the causes he believes in, Dan Rather. He says at Kos:
I was rather surprised to see my name in the report, because "the Panel" made absolutely NO EFFORT to contact me at any point, despite the fact that, according to the panel, I was the person who lead 60 Minutes II to the Killian memos when I told Mapes about a rumor that someone had access to additional Bush documents---and I have spoken with Mapes on a number of occasions.
If you don't know who he is... don't worry about it. It's just a moment of local history.
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