If he had admitted they were forged, they would no longer be able to protect their "source", yes?
Right, and since we know the experts told them the documents "had some problems" it means they went forward knowingly with fake document deliberately and therefore CBS is culpable along with the forger of deliberately trying to skew a presidential election in time of war.
This is big, and its got legs.
That CBS "statement" was nonsense. Nobody asked if the documents were "accurate". They answered a question that no one asked.
If I forged a memo from Nixon and presented it as authentic, I couldn't argue to a judge that "Well, your honor, at least I got the facts right!!"
absolute nonsense!