So now we see why Dan Rather "retired"

[CarreraS2]

So CBS didn't have to fire him along with the others.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20050110/ap_on_en_tv/cbs_guard

[bryanthompson]

retire with a golden parachute, or face the consequences of inventing a story, using forged documents...

oh well, at least Mapes was sufficiently shamed.

[kach22i]

CBS News executives relied too heavily on Mapes, who only months earlier had broken the story about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and had been investigating Bush's National Guard service since 1999

Sounds like Mary Mapes was not making friends with the bushies.

Both Moonves and the panel said it hoped the report did not have a "chilling effect" on CBS News' commitment to investigative journalism.

Oh, right.

[Joeaksa]

He should have gone years ago, now he gets the golden parachute...

Karma will get him in the end...

JoeA