Here's my theory:
The bozos knew the memo is a forgery. They intended for everyone to know the memo is a forgery. The IDEA BEING if President Bush's records are forgeries,of course, when John F. Kerry's records are released with all sorts of bad crap... Voila' HIS records were forged by the Bush administration or whomever. It's a d*** ruse, people.
Dan Rather was just too quick on the draw. The bozos fed him some stuff they thought no one would look at too closely.
Remember Peter Arnet? He ran that story about us gassing our own POW's in Vietnam as a coverup for the fact that we'd abandoned them. The tale teller said the eyes of one of his guys on the mission were dilated , a sign of nerve agent. The only problem is that nerve agent produces pin-point pupils, as any basic trainee would know. Atropine , the antidote, produces dilated pupils.