In other words: "The documents said what we were hoping they would say, what we wanted them to say -- oh, heck, let's admit it, they hurt the President so we HAD to run with them -- but, now, it looks like we've been caught, so we'll spend some time trying to figure out how to get out of this mess and hope that, if a week or two passes, you'll just forget about it. "Yeah ... that's the ticket!
P.S. we can use MS Word to forge documents, but we can't use it's spell check to fix our spelling!
I will charitably assume that your final "its" had an erroneous apostrophe intentionally, in mockery of the aforementioned spell-check.
You put your finger on it.
CBS is betting the ranch on the clouding effects of time. Let's keep this story out there in all of its stark nudity. CBS-you have been exposed for the hacks you are.