Not sure about Hodge. Killian is dead. One of the fundamental rules of defamation law is that when the victim dies, the case disappears. That's why I said that one of Staudt's biggest problems is living long enough to take it to trial. He's 84, and you can bet that CBS's lawyers would drag it out in the hopes that he'd die.
I meant Lt Col Killian's wife and son...c-BS is defaming their dead husband and father who can't defend himself. RATS are real good at using dead people for the witnesses.