[Mike Fieschko]

hey, they are or they are not...which is it!

No expert with any intelligence is going to form an opinion based on copies. They will only authenticate originals.

AFAIK, not only are these copies, we don't know (read: DNC-BS hasn't told us)

whether the copies they have (they deny having the originals) were copied 500 times, faxed back and forth a few dozen times, and then scanned (how many times?) into a pdf file.

[TheLion]

So, does this let everybody off the hook?

[dep]

No expert with any intelligence is going to form an opinion based on copies. They will only authenticate originals.

right and wrong. no one will authenticate on dupes, but dupes can be of such obvious forgeries that a document can be discredited on that basis. (for instance, you can cut and paste a signature and xerox the doc and not know whether the sig was on the original. but if the signature is a forgery, it doesn't matter, because it's obvious even from the copy that the thing is no good.)