First, you are way off base claiming Tomase made up evidence and lied. There is absolutely no evidence of that. I truly believe that he believed the story to be true and had a source who was in position to know the truth. His crime was not spending the time and effort to verify the truth and get independent confirmation (I assume he used the Matt Walsh revelation as that independent confirmation). The Rams' walkthrough story was not made up by Tomase and Tom Curran reported the rumor on his blog months before and Michael Holley spoke of the rumor around the same time as Curran did.
Second, Specter's motives were pretty obvious. He wanted revenge for the Pats stealing the Eagles' Super Bowl win. It is far too much of a coincidence that he would decide the Thursday before the Super Bowl to contact Greg Bishop of the Times. As for Bishop, he acted as Specter's Press Secretary the entire Matt Walsh saga. I don't know for sure they did it on purpose to sink the Pats' Super Bowl chances, but it looks pretty obvious. But then again, you are claiming Tomase lied and fabricated evidence without a shread of evidence and with evidence to the contrary.
Third, I am not defending Tomase, at least not trying to make him an innocent. I have said repeatly that he was a villian in this whole mess. All I am doing is countering this effort to make Tomase into some kind of bin Laden. You and others are making up crimes that he didn't committ. Tomase didn't make up the Rams' walkthrough story. That rumor has been around for years. He never claimed there was a tape that still existed although he did assume that that might be the evidence Walsh claimed to have.
Tomase is guilty of bad journalism and a rush to get the story out without verifying and weighing the consequences especially what it would do to Belichick and the Patriots if he laid this accusation on them and his source ends up not being right. That is inexcusable, but again his crime was a crime of stupid wreckless opportunism. You and others want to make it sound like he manufactured this story to sink Belichick and elevate his career. Only the elevate his career part is correct.