Nah, nah. He thought he had adequate substantiation. But in the real world it's rarely possible to satisfy everyone, to provide the proverbial "smoking gun". And the pressures of meeting deadlines and outdoing the competition often cause reporters to cut corners.
I don't deny that he wanted to "get Bush" and this played a big part in his "throwing caution to the winds". What I do deny is that his assertions were proved to be false...
You are making way, way too many excuses for sloppy , biased reporting . Even after the FRAUD was discovered he still stalled and floundered. "even if the documents are fake , what they say is real " Are you kidding me bro ? Rather is garbage and has been for years . My high school newspaper would have fired him . He's been falsly reporting the news for years according to his political leanings.
All anyone has to do is produce a 1970-era typewriter that can produce identical documents.