RATHER DIGS IN: THE DOCUMENTS ARE AUTHENTIC
Oh my god CBS is staking everything on these fake documents.....they are trying to bluff their way out of the jam...
It's a Catch-22 situation.
If the documents are genuine, then the source is covered by First Amendment privilege.
If the documents are fraudulent, then there is a federal felony involved, and CBS becomes an accessory.
The only way to avoid a legal nightmare is to insist that the documents are genuine in the hope that nobody can prove conclusively otherwise.
Curly quote, true type font, questionable signature... A retired officer having enough power to be mentioned in one of the memos...
Cough up the originals, cuz if they were typed in a typewriter, the characters will have been stricken into the paper & even after all these years, that would show up.