CBS Says It Will Give Rather the Docs He Wants

Dan Rather's efforts to get CBS to produce in court documents that it has previously withheld concerning the investigation into "Rathergate" could backfire, the network suggested Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, CBS lawyer Jim Quinn said that the network was prepared to produce "virtually all of the materials" that Rather has requested, including a report by documents examiner Erik T. Rigler, which Rather has suggested had been hushed up because they confirmed the authenticity of the controversial documents he referred to on his disputed 60 Minutes II broadcast about President Bush's National Guard service. But Quinn said Tuesday that the Rigler study, far from supporting Rather's claims, will do "just the opposite."