THE POWERLINE GUYS are on Hugh Hewitt right now. Listen online here.

You can see a Dan Rather interview here. He looks, and sounds, nervous and defensive. And he spends most of his time making counter-accusations. It’s an astoundingly unconvincing performance.

He doesn’t help his credibility when he makes an obvious lie: that he stands behind the President in wartime. Riiigghht.

What we need from CBS is (1) the provenance of the documents; (2) chain of custody; (3) extrinsic evidence of reliability — and the original documents, not just PDF copies on the web, made available to independent outside experts for review.

I think what we’re getting is “trust us” and after-the-fact lawyering.