ERNEST MILLER has produced a savage Fisking of CBS’s latest statement.

UPDATE: It’s okay to plant evidence, if you really think the suspect is guilty, right? “If Dan Rather is CBS’s answer to Jayson Blair, Andrew Heyward is Howell Raines. Both must go.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Edward Hyde emails:

Dan Rather could have asked the secretary the make and model typewriter she used in her job.

All secretaries have this information locked forever in their memory.

It might have settled the question of forgery once and for all.

He may not have wanted to hear the answer.