[Peach]

If the memos weren't fake, why did the reporter destroy the originals? A good reporter would have kept the originals locked up somewhere.

[Restorer]

I did not say the memos were not fake. I said that an accurate copy of a real original memo is just as "real" as the original, although much more difficult to validate. Burden of proof should be on the one presenting the copied documents.

[Sir Gawain]

If the memos weren't fake, why did the reporter destroy the originals?

Does it say that? The quote says he returned the originals to the source.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"A good reporter would have kept the originals locked up somewhere."

A 'good forger' would never have had any 'originals' to lock up.

A good forger should be locked up somewhere.