Dan Rather's burden of proof
Byron York: ... Rather, the former anchor of the CBS Evening News, is still really, really mad about losing his job in the wake of the George W. Bush/Air National Guard/phony documents story. And now he is telling his version of events in the form of a $70 million lawsuit against his former employers. You remember the story. Aired at the height of the 2004 presidential campaign, Rather reported that Bush received preferential treatment to get into the Guard during the Vietnam era. Rather based his conclusions on newly discovered documents purporting to prove that preferential treatment. Of course, it turned out the documents were phony, or at least impossible to verify. CBS retracted the story, and Rather apologized. Now Rather is making some rather astonishing allegations. First, he claims that, after the report stirred controversy, top CBS management conducted a sham investigation of the story for the purpose of making sure that damaging information about George W. Bush be kept secre...