The more important question is HOW MANY lives, reputations, and careers HAVE ALREADY been maliciously destroyed over the decades by sloppy, partisan "journalists" like Mapes and Rather and the rest of that ilk who used forgeries and lying witnesses to get a story on the air? We will never know.
Which case is stronger: that the documents are forged and CBS has a political agenda, or that AIDS is caused by HIV and is spread heterosexually?