[Boundless]

Perhaps the whole list needs to start with:

0. The "documents" in question can be trivially recreated,
with high precision, by using Microsoft Word, under default
settings of the program. This places the documents in the
late 1980s if not more recent.

Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is the most
likely), suggests that this becomes the leading candidate
explanation for the source of these documents, and covers
all of the objections following.

Historical explanations require answering all of the
following.

[claudiustg]

---Perhaps the whole list needs to start with:

0. The "documents" in question can be trivially recreated,
with high precision, by using Microsoft Word, under default
settings of the program. This places the documents in the
late 1980s if not more recent.

Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is the most
likely), suggests that this becomes the leading candidate
explanation for the source of these documents, and covers
all of the objections following.

Historical explanations require answering all of the
following.---

Absolutely! Just like Columbo! He figures out how the crime was committed and so solves the crime. The question remaining is who. If Rather doesn't want to go down he better start making sense.

[Joe Miner]

Perhaps the whole list needs to start with: 0. The "documents" in question can be trivially recreated, with high precision, by using Microsoft Word, under default settings of the program. This places the documents in the late 1980s if not more recent.

I prefer the following:

The "documents" in question are obvious forgeries unless Microsoft's Word Design team used these specific "documents" as templates in the design of MS Word.