This could explain his unreasonable adherence to this story.
"This could explain his unreasonable adherence to this story"
May be wrong, but IMHO
This weird position Rather and CBS now find themselves in can no longer be rationalized from the simple contention they still believe in the validity of the documents, it has gone far beyond that. With CBS, it is we are right, and the entire known world is wrong.
At this point, to admit memos are forgeries, they have, and I mean have, to expose their source. Once the source is outed, criminal legal problems will quickly take a giagantic quantum leap forward.
The source then turns onto CBS & Rather and rats them out, they will be shown complicit in a criminal conspiracy, witness tampering, etc., etc. CBS now finds themselves in an untenable position with no good options as to avenues of escape. This cannot have a good end for CBS and Rather, no matter what action they now choose, it will be disastrous.
The civil trials will make CBS's bottom line drop like a rock. Killian's son and his widow are going to be very wealthy people at some future date, and that is only one settlement,