Don't Look Back, Scotty Mac

You might just see your replacement.

At a certain stage, Kelley agreed to talk with the panel. Kovach: "Jack agreed to sit down with three of us, and we spent 27 hours face-to-face with him. The most gut-wrenching and depressing thing I've ever done, just taking a human being apart. But we just did an amazing process. Even when confronted with reams of data, of fraud and lying, he couldn't bring himself to admit it. He just couldn't do it, and he was very convincing in the denials. I've never run into anything quite like that."

So there was no breaking point?

"He never broke. Never broke. To the last day, when we confronted him with messages he was sending to people all over the world, asking them to lie for him. We confronted him with photographs of people who were alive, whom he had 'killed' - you know, said were dead. Confronted him with all of these things. He said, 'I'm on overload, all I can say is I never told any lies.'"

Damn, that World Journalism Institute is good! As WJI's Bob Case says, with no false modesty, "In our post-modern world, language is used not to reveal and enlighten but to conceal and deceive."