Juicy Bits Surfacing in Rather Case: In 2004, CBS Considered Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter Independent Panel

BY FELIX GILLETTE
New York Observer
NOVEMBER 6, 2008

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This week, Dan Rather's legal team submitted a memorandum to the judge overseeing Mr. Rather's $70 million civil lawsuit against his former employers, which for the first time made public some of the thousands of documents that CBS has already turned over in the ongoing discovery process.

The Media Mob is still making its way through the thick stack of e-mails, internal memos, and transcripts included in this stash. But we were kind of amazed by one document.

First the quick backstory:

In the fall of 2004, in the aftermath of Dan Rather and Co.'s flawed report on President Bush's military surface (and the subsequent controversy known as "Memogate"), CBS executives announced that they were forming an independent review panel, charged with investigating the manner in which the controversial report had been researched and broadcast.

(More here.)