It seems that the wingnuts feel that they are able to defuse the disasterous impact DSM with a tried and proven method... debunk the authenticity of the source materials.
Little Green Footballs
The Downing Street memos: fake but accurate.
The eight memos -- all labeled "secret" or "confidential" -- were first obtained by British reporter Michael Smith, who has written about them in The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times.
Smith told AP he protected the identity of the source he had obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals."
That news snippet is expounded upon in Captain's Quarters
One fact certainly stands out -- Michael Smith cannot authenticate the copies. And absent that authentication, they lose their value as evidence of anything.
This is a different tactic, perhaps acknowledging the "not really news" slant was being ignored by a public which has a firmer grasp on what they were being told at the time.