Matteo:

You got it. The threat isn’t the libel suit from Pres. Bush – it is the libel suit from Col. Staudt and Col. Killian’s estate (if an estate can sue for libeling a dead person – I’m not sure about that, but Col. Staudt is still alive).

These are private persons, not public figures and the malice standard doesn’t apply, hence they have an easier time proving their cases.

CBS broadcast this to a nation of 300,000,000. Ooops, that’s a lot of damage there. CBS put the documents on the web to a world of 8,000,000,000+/- people. Ooops that’s a world of damage.

The question that I am curious about is who was in at CBS this weekend who would not normally be there?