Not to burst your bubble but these documents were released by the Pentagon. Is the Pentagon in on this conspiracy?
Are you sure this one was? Why doesn't it match the others? It's new type, and has an obviously forged signature, like Kerry's silver star citation(s).
Just wondering how the LtCol's copy machine kept the same platen flaw (observe vertical rows of dots down the center in a fairly specific pattern) from May 4, 1972 to Aug 18, 1973, but somehow did not have it (the vertical rows of dots are gone) Aug 1, 1972 or Aug 19, 1972.
Even if the two intermediate docs were copied on a different copier, it seems quite unusual for the same wear marks to be there a year later.
If the wear marks were on the Pentagon copier, then they really should appear on all four of the memo's under the assumption that they were copied together before being distributed to CBS.
I'm afraid it is I who must burst yours (and you'll note I'm not on the "they're forgeries" train):
New Questions On Bush Guard Duty
excerpt:
But 60 Minutes has obtained a number of documents we are told were taken from Col. Killian's personal file. Among them, a never-before-seen memorandum from May 1972, where Killian writes that Lt. Bush called him to talk about "how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November."
Lt. Bush tells his commander "he is working on a campaign in Alabama…. and may not have time to take his physical." Killian adds that he thinks Lt. Bush has gone over his head, and is "talking to someone upstairs."
Col. Killian died in 1984. 60 Minutes consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic.
~snip~
In case the meaning zipped by you, CBS did not possess Killian's file, they were given documents by *somebody* (they don't name this entity) who represented the origins of the memos as coming from Killians personal file.
Since, as I've pointed out, the documents buttress George W. Bush, I don't see the point of why someone would concoct them, but you are wrong to say they came from the Pentagon and the sourcing is pure.
My understanding is that they were from personal files maintained by a person who died long ago. If they are, in fact, from the Pentagon, then we have a whole different story.
Bush's records were released, not these memos.
These were supposedly Killian's personal files.
The Pentagon would not have someone's personal files.
Hence being called 'personal'.