Even forgers using state-of-the-art technology are at a disadvantage simply because their product becomes locked in time once it's produced. They have no way of knowing what technology will come along and what kinds of tests may ultimately be brought to bear against their forgery. It's kind of like the cold case arrests you hear about every now and then, where a suspect is finally identified with tissue evidence collected in 1972, by applying DNA tests not available at the time.
Even if the O-team put together credible appearing college transcripts and applications today in 2012, it's virtually inevitable that within a month, a year, or a decade, some means of analysis would come about that would identify the fraud. Of course, the document forger always runs the risk that somebody lurking in the shadows will produce a bona fide original with solid gold provenance...
Thanks for the reply. The last sentence is what I was kind of leaning towards, but the rest makes sense.
I kind of asked the same question with Fast and Furious. Issa wants more documents. How do we know that Holder isn’t destroying them as we speak? And why doesn’t he? I assume there are things in place to keep that from happening, but it seems quite easy. Probably not though.
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