Sorry to interrupt all this sophisticated analysis, and pardon me if someone's already mentioned this, but it seems to me the important part of the tape, the final moments, never actually got heard. Because Katie Couric chimes in with some totally redundant, pointless commentary JUST at the moment when the alleged "three way" conversation supposedly took place. If you listen carefully you can hear the typewriter typing away under Katie's prattle. WHAT was going through the woman's mind? I don't think she had ANY idea what the controversy over the tape was all about.

SO -- IMO any conclusions anyone might want to draw regarding Burke's presence or absence would have to be premature. We never actually heard that part, all we heard was Katie Couric.

Not that I have EVER bought into the theory that anything of importance is actually recorded on that tape anyhow. People have a way of hearing what they want to hear. If you listen carefully you can even hear a ticking clock "talking" to you. Nevertheless I'm really curious to actually hear the WHOLE tape, with everything on it, as well as the enhanced version the BPD used. We haven't yet heard either as far as I can tell.