My husband brought up something interesting yesterday, he wondered how much CBS had paid for the documents. I didn't even think of this angle.
Could the forgeries be motivated by money as well as Bush-hatred?
cui bono.
Think about it. Who benefits from the allegations against Bush going down in flames? The net effect of the discovery that these documents are likely forgeries is to discredit ANY personal attack against Bush for the remainder of the election. Bush is innoculated against any more attacks of this nature. And who benefits from that? Somone who wants to run against a non-incumbent in 2008.
Keep in mind that the Clinton campaign advisors (Carville and Begala) have just "joined" the Kerry campaign, at the behest of Bubba from his hospital bed. Bubba, before he was hospitalized with chronic Big-Mac-itis, was advising Kerry he needed to "hit back hard" whenever he was attacked, and after enduring a month of attrition in the polls at the hands of the Swift Boat Vets, Kerry was more than ready to clobber Bush with whatever was handy.
And lo and behold, the phony ANG documents suddenly appear and are "provided" to Dan Rather, who like the salivating brainless moron that he is, dutifully broadcast the obviously suspect material in ominous, solemn tones.
So "who benefits"? Hillary, who will now rest easy knowing that Kerry's campaign is in tatters thanks in part to her husband's, and her husband's cronies', "advice," while Bush is innoculated against further personal attacks for the duration of the election, virtually assuring a Democrat defeat in November, thus paving the only path she has to run for the presidency with minimal interference by 2008.
Just as with the Rose Law firm billing records, these documents have Hillary's virtual fingerprints all over them.