It's been four years since Memogate, and countless time and energy has been devoted on Dan Rather's part to battle CBS, along with $2 million of the anchor's own money.

But it looks like dollars do talk, especially when all the secret memos come out that show that CBS really did have a conservative agenda when it came to investigating their former employee. The most recent evidence of G.O.P. play was that list of the "objective" panel CBS wanted to use to study Rather's blunder: it included Matt Drudge and Roger Ailes.

Now there is further evidence that Rather may be something other than an irate ex-employee of CBS: he is an actual threat.

Asked about the assembly of the panel in a sworn deposition, Andrew Heyward, the former president of CBS News, acknowledged that he had wanted at least one member to sit well with conservatives: “CBS News, fairly or unfairly, had a reputation for liberal bias,” and “the harshest scrutiny was obviously going to come from the right.”
Other documents, meanwhile, suggest that Ms. Mason (VP of CBS), who reported to Mr. Heyward, was getting updates from panel investigators on some of their findings, at a point when CBS News was telling outsiders that the network was staying out of the investigation.

Now Rather's main goal seems to be getting his old bosses under oath, where they can be scrutinized and hang themselves with their own words regarding their involvement in Rather's departure and subsequent shaming.