RATHERGATE UPDATE:

It ‘s been nearly 3 1/2 months since former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired Associated Press chief executive Louis D. Boccardi were named to an independent panel to investigate the “60 Minutes” story that used forged documents to allege Bush shirked his duties when in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s.

CBS’s Andrew Heyward promised we’d hear in “weeks not months.” As Tim Blair comments: “Inasmuch as weeks are a component of months, Heyward’s statement could possibly be considered ‘fake, but true’.”