Good grief. Tipped off in advance? Yeah, because the plan all along was to tap out a quick forgery from a PC, then get it through weeks of vetting in a major news department, and see it featured ridiculously on a prepared 60 Minutes segment. *Then*, since the forgery's telltale signs were so obvious, the forgery story would be picked up by other major news outlets in a few hours after single post on FR.
Anyway, if journalists are already trying to pin *fake* memos on Bush, CBS is going to have to do better than to say it's not really the documents they're authenticating, but the opinions they contain.
One problem: The DNC/Kerry Campaign apparently had those documents some 6 weeks before they were given to CBS. So, why didn't DNC scrutinize the documents during that time? Why didn't they verify their authenticity? And where are the 'originals'? Too much 'funky' stuff can be done with a wordprocessing software, laser/inkjet printer, and scanner/photocopier.