[KarlInOhio]

by then your were doomed before you put the paper in the typerwriter.

If she had actually put the paper in a typewriter instead of in a laser printer the forgery would have been harder to prove.

[Fester Chugabrew]

If she had actually put the paper in a typewriter instead of in a laser printer . . .

Were the documents ever checked physically to determine whether a typewriter was actually used? I bet CBS is not about to submit the orignal document(s) to closer scrutiny.

[Christopher Lincoln]

Indeed. Running off documents on your computer and pretending that they were typewritten in 1972 - that's pretty stupid. Couldn't somebody have sprung for an actual typewriter? Unconsciously, Ms. Mapes explains this mystery: she and her colleagues were stuck in the past. To their thinking, it didn't matter if somebody realized the 'memos' were fake; the public generally would never hear about it, as long as the media did not question (and the New York Times certainly didn't).