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He also contends that the network committed fraud by commissioning a “biased” and incomplete investigation of the flawed Guard broadcast and, in the process, “seriously damaged his reputation.”

LOL! I think Rather is saying that CBS mighta' conducted the investigation using info derived from anonymous sources feeding a Kinkos fax machine somewhere.

237 posted on 09/20/2007 5:30:51 AM PDT by elli1
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091901445.html

Dan Rather Sues CBS, Seeking To ‘Restore His Reputation’

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 20, 2007; Page C01

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Rather’s lawyer, Martin Gold, said last night: “Dan is bringing this lawsuit to restore his reputation. He’s not doing this for the money,” he added, saying that Rather would donate most of any court award to journalistic causes.

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The debacle over the National Guard story, which the suit says became known as “Rathergate,” turned on 30-year-old memos said to have been written by Bush’s late squadron commander. Several newspapers, including The Washington Post, and conservative bloggers gathered evidence that the documents were unlikely to have been typed on government typewriters of that era.

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Gold, Rather’s lawyer, maintained that “nobody’s proved the documents were forgeries. The way we look at it, it’s more than likely the documents are authentic.”

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238 posted on 09/20/2007 6:20:55 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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