"The memos on the website seem to be several generations away from the original. What kind of document expert would say that a 15th generation copy is "authentic"? That's crazy talk. "
Yes, it appears CBS has photo copies of these documents. Without the Killian's original signature on the papers, there is no way to authenticate if Killian signed them.
I one had the job as a production sheduler in the AF for my organization. Sometimes the cover page changed that had the original signature for the production schedule. I did not run down the bosses to have them resigned the cover page. I cut and pasted their signatures from a copy or original, onto the new cover page. Then I have photo copied the new cover page with the old signatures and wallah, the old signatures appear on the new cover page without getting anyone to sign.
Oh yeah.
Right. The ORIGINAL AUTHOR of a PRIVATE MEMO to himself had to "cut and paste" HIS OWN SIGNATURE from HIS OWN EARLIER DOCUMENTS onto the bottom of a private MEMO .... Then go to a copier (?) and copy the new document onto ITSELF so HE could refile all three documents HIMSELF?
Come on. Think about it.
Think about what you're saying.