Rather said that to his mind, two of the panel's most important conclusions were that it could not demonstrate that political bias played a part in the stories or conclusively account for the origins of the documents in question.

"Although they had four months and millions of dollars, they could not demonstrate that the documents were not authentic, that they were forgeries," Rather said.

...even though they had "four months and millions of dollars," the CBS investigators never even contacted LGF, Powerline, and Dr. Joseph M. Newcomer - the very people who provided definitive proof that the documents are blatant, obvious fakes...