"What are you worried about...further (real) documentation that is more damning? A Republican source? A distraction?"
I don't know, and that's what's worrying me. This was a clummsy forgery, one sure to be detected. Why?
You and I know that, but the people involved may not have thought that, for various reasons. The forger may have been an amateur, CBS being afflicted with groupthink and absence of critical analysis.
The only other calculus that makes sense is to keep something else out of the news for a few days, and risk the credibility hit as being short-lived and shallow-reaching.
Dems "At least the Swift Boat issue is off the air"
Just how did Booth get into Lincoln's box? How is it possible that Oswald could have fired off such incredibly accurate shots? With all the intel leads and warning tidbits, how is it that the 9/11 plot wasn't uncovered and prevented? Because, looking backwards, all the paths through the maze to the known conclusion are always brilliantly clear. This forgery probably was just a fairly well done one, but not perfect. Has all the features of a typical intelligence fabrication, gritty appearance, not the original copy, almost folksy patois, conveniently fits the need of the consumer. Doubt that this is a clever gambit by a cool and calculating mentality.