That'll be hard to explain away.
Especially after the news orgasm CBS has had for a week now.
The word is he resigned over the emails and before the IMs were revealed. That blows away the best evidence that the IMs are not forged.
No. In fact, he resigned over the IMs, and simply called it a "smear campaign" after the initial emails.
As I understand it, the news is not that they were forged, but that they deliberately written as part of a prank. Big difference.