CBS has completely run out of excuses not to bare all, fire Mapes, Rather and sundry accomplices, and detail just how far they got involved in the Kerry campaign. But they'd rather not. What do you do when you can't possibly find a reason to withhold the truth any longer? How can you possibly delay coming clean without looking like a gang of crooks?
Well, you can have the conspirators sue each other. Then, on the advice of lawyers, everyone shuts up "while the case is pending" (i.e. until the 12th of Never). They'd happily clear it all up -- and they will, once the process has run its course -- but right now their hands are tied. So sorry.