An independent commission later found fault with producers for not adequately vetting the documents.
Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, said Mayer probably relied on her legal counsel to vet the document rather than reviewing it herself.
First, there's a review process in which scientists must answer not only critiques from the National Academy of Sciences, which vets the document, but also comments submitted by the public.
In 1999, Jane's posted a draft of an article on cyberterrorism to the massively popular online discussion forum Slashdot, whose denizens vetted the document so thoroughly that Jane's decided to rewrite it from scratch.
The film also stars the reliably vulpine Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, the producer whose failure to vet the documents led to Rather leaving CBS after 55 years.
The journalists vetted the documents, many of which have not been made public, and chose to withhold some information that government officials said would compromise national security.
Mr. Morrell said the Pentagon had formed a team of 80 analysts from the military and the F.B.I. who are working around the clock to vet the documents for damaging information.
Mr. Rather has already been deposed, as has Carol Melton, who did legislative work for CBS and its former parent, Viacom, in Washington, and Erik T. Rigler, a private investigator hired by CBS to help vet the documents and other matters at issue in the disputed report.
The prospect of British judges demanding further damaging disclosures in the future appalled the Americans.The sheer effort and cost of vetting the mountain of documents was also prohibitive.
Our process for creating the principles and benchmarks of ethically-credible AHCIPs involved the reviewing key partnership documents; reviewing the relevant academic literature; scoping the issues; and developing and vetting the draft Principles and Benchmarks before producing a final document.
Energy Department documents indicate that Mr. Spinner was a senior member of the team involved in vetting the loans and was instrumental in the Solyndra package.
