[twntaipan]

Speculating wildly: Rather's daughter--connections to Mapes and Barnes--hates the Bush family because her daddy hates em, and readily explains why Dan is willing to bet the entire farm on an increasingly apparent fraud. He knows she could go to jail.

[Rockingham]

Maybe. But I have a hard time thinking that Rather would be so reckless as to knowingly serve up a forgery. A nogoodnik in so many ways, in this instance Rather seems a victim of his blind hostility to Bush.