It is obvious an amateur forged these things...here's what one expert consulted (then ignored) by CBS said:
"What I was finding was a lot of red flags," Emily Will told The Washington Post last night. She said she listed five concerns in an e-mail three days before last Wednesday's broadcast and that in a call to a producer the day before the program, "I repeated all my objections as strongly as I could." Will said she told the producer: "If you air the program on Wednesday, on Thursday you're going to have hundreds of document examiners raising the same questions."
www.crushkerry.com has a pretty solid idea about who did it. These guys are partisan hacks, but seem to have good information inside the Kerry camp (they've been right a few times in the past)
"Frequent readers of crushkerry.com know we have sources inside the Kerry campaign and the Democrat National Committee who occasionally toss us a little nugget of information. Just this morning we spoke to one such source who told us the Kerry campaign is furious with how incredibly out-of-control the whole Rather-gate scandal has gotten.
Our source assures us the Kerry campaign had nothing to do with the memo itself. But they strongly suggested that the pro-Kerry 527 group MoveOn.org is directly responsible for handing the document over to CBS.
And possibly even for manufacturing the forged document itself.
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It’s important to bear in mind our source could not state with certainty that MoveOn.org was the source of the fraudulent document.
“I don’t know if it was them. I don’t know anything about it, first hand. But I can tell you everyone here [at Kerry HQ] thinks they gave it to CBS. And lots of people here think they created the damn thing,” our source told us.
Our source also expressed deep frustration at what she called the “hijacking of our campaign and our party by the amateurs at MoveOn.org.”
“Those guys don’t know campaigns. They’re driven by their emotions, not by the dispassionate resolve it takes to win a campaign. And so they’re prone to do stupid things like this, which hurts everybody,” she said.
When asked if empowering a shadowy 527 group like MoveOn.org with a grant from George Soros and other billionaire partisans was a smart move, our source acknowledged that by-and-large the group has been helpful to the campaign.
“They serve a purpose,” she stated. “But they need to know when to draw the line.”