He argued the magazine report stemmed from the release of "some documents" by the casinos themselves which was not legal and violated his privacy rights.
He alleges documents were selectively leaked to create a false impression that he had a gaming problem.
While Bennett did not dispute the legitimacy of the documents and said he had no problem with the reporters who have written stories on his gambling, he told Russert the release of the information was not legal and he is looking into the possibility of legal action against the casinos.
If the casinos maintain a credit rating data base for gamblers, then they have a duty to insure that the information is never accessed for improper reasons. If it was, in this case, then I have no problem with Bill Bennett suing and if I were on the jury I would make him owner of the offending casino(s). Maybe the solution is just not to have such a data base, and therefore not to extend credit to gamblers. Sounds like a win-win situation to me.