Dan Rather Sues CBS

Rather claimed CBS used him as a “scapegoat” and intentionally allowed him to take the blame for a discredited story about President Bush’s military service in order to please the White House.

Unfortunately for Rather, he publicly took personal responsibility for the inaccuracies and it was widely reported at the time that he firmly believed in the truth of the story and was not interested in researching the story any further.

CBS commissioned an independent panel to determine the source of the story’s problems. The panel concluded that the story was neither fair or accurate. As a result CBS fired the story’s producer, asked for resignation of three executives and eventually accepted Rather’s resignation in the aftermath.

Legal experts don’t give Mr. Rather a high probability of success in this lawsuit.