My theory is that the forgery and the subsequent stonewalling were planned in advance to increase the perceived importance of the story. If legitimate or plausibly legitimate documents had been presented, most people would have just shrugged the story off. We all knew that Bush was a bit of a slacker before cleaning up his act later in life. So if someone wrote an irate memo about his less-than-stellar performance in the early 70s, so what? But now, it’s as though the accuracy of the memos is of paramount importance, and so the contents must be important too, right? Eventually CBS can admit that they were the victim of an unfortunate hoax but, horror of horrors, the vitally important claims in the memos are correct! So please get out and ‘rock the vote’! Expect to see more people like the secretary trotted out. Just a theory. Hope I’m wrong.