Reply #28: The wording IS confusing

[indie_voter]

"he had obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals."

Do the originals mean original minutes or the original documents the source gave him?

I read this as the original documents the source gave him, not the original document. Perhaps the journalist will make this clear.

The DSM are minutes, so they were distributed to all participants at the meetings. So all participants must have copies too.

Odds are they weren't typed on a typewriter but on a computer, which would mean the original also exists on the computer.

This is very different from what happened with the Rather debacle. The information was 30 years old and the author dead.