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ABC News: Son of Late Officer Questions Bush Memos
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| 9-9-2004
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Posted on 09/09/2004 4:15:11 PM PDT by Thanatos
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To: finnigan2
The source of the forgeries? Vince Foster?
;-)
To: Diogenesis
Correct - 1Lt not 1st Lt.
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posted on
09/09/2004 5:44:35 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
("FR, best viewed with a budgie on hand")
To: chalkman
One of the Memo's dated August 73 claims pressure from a higher ranking officier to help Bush .....it looks forged ....but it is really dubious since the General retired in 1972......
See this for details:
Kerry Spot [ jim geraghty reporting ]
They Kerry DemonicRats just dropped a MOAB on themselves!!!
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posted on
09/09/2004 5:46:51 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: chalkman
(forgive my ignorance, I am very tired and am having trouble thinking)Drink a warm glass of milk and go to bed.
You might think better in the morning.
84
posted on
09/09/2004 5:47:33 PM PDT
by
CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
(3 Purple Hearts? No blood? No Way!!)
To: The Bandit
If that is true then why didn't at least the superscript catch the experts attention? As soon as the documents were posted on cbsnews.com, freepers were pointing out the anachronistic nature of the memos. It doesn't say much for CBS, and their expert, that they missed these obvious errors.
To: Thanatos
86
posted on
09/09/2004 6:11:47 PM PDT
by
TexasNative2000
(When it's all said and done, someone starts another conversation.......)
To: Thanatos
87
posted on
09/09/2004 6:13:26 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: kcinnh
No,Dan's Dem daughter who wants to be in politics.
To: Diogenesis
Diogenesis has provided the most complete summary of the problems with this hoax. Thanks.
To: Diogenesis
To: VadeRetro
"Can't prove it can't be done, but I haven't done it easily as reportedly happens with MS Word."Would you guess, as I would, that it's a federal crime to possess/use forged and altered government documents for the purpose of committing massive fraud over state lines in an effort to interfere with a federal election and to do so under color of a federally granted broadcasting license?
And further, if there were reasonable cause to believe this had occured, wouldn't the Attorney General, in response to citizen complaint, have authority to order an FBI investigation of such alleged crime?
And, if such an order were given by the AG, wouldn't the FBI have ample resources for determining how these documents were made, what machine/s they were typed on, and when they could and could not have been composed? Wouldn't the FBI be in position to determine where that stationary came from, how old it was, whether the Texas/Alabama ANGs used it back then, as well as similar information about the ink/s?
My answer to all of these question is "yes."
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posted on
09/09/2004 6:30:36 PM PDT
by
Bonaparte
(and guess who sighs his lullabies, to nights that never end...)
To: Bonaparte
I'm not sure what somebody did and what the law says about it. I'm pretty sure Dan Rather was candy for some fraudster because he'd have wanted to forge these documents himself if he dared.
The White House distributed the four memos from 1972 and 1973 after obtaining them from CBS News. The White House did not question their accuracy. He not so dumb.
93
posted on
09/09/2004 6:39:14 PM PDT
by
mingusthecat
(Mingus has again opined. Like any cat, she doesn't really care what YOU think.)
To: VadeRetro
Incidentally, the point of this experiment is to show that it's very, very hard to get superimposable text with two different modern word processing programs. WordPerfect and MS Word don't seem to want to agree to that degree.
Nevertheless, CBS standing by its story and all that, MS Word and some long-ago typewriter apparently make text that shadows. Furthermore, it's reportedly EASY to do with the default font and character size of MS Word.
To: Diogenesis
Also: The letter format is IAW today's standard, not those in use in 1972. Killian's signature is right of center on these memos...USAF change to that style in the 90's. Killian's signatur should have been left justified.
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posted on
09/09/2004 6:48:03 PM PDT
by
TankerKC
(R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win'E American Hero)
To: Thanatos
The White House distributed the four memos from 1972 and 1973 after obtaining them from CBS News" Is it just possible that someone in the Bush Whitehouse is smart enough to figure this forgery out and distributed them without comment to sink Dan Rather forever? Just thinking Karl Rove is that smart is scary. But nice scary.:-)
96
posted on
09/09/2004 7:07:25 PM PDT
by
wildbill
To: Thanatos
97
posted on
09/09/2004 7:20:43 PM PDT
by
chaosagent
(It's all right to be crazy. Just don't let it drive you nuts.)
To: Thanatos
I didn't have time; I was just heading out the door for a meeting to paint signs for our 9/11 rally, then I had a meeting of BC '04 Precinct Chairs, then I went out to help set up the GOP booth at the county fair.
(Someone remind me again why I signed up for this?)
Anyway, I figured if I called everyone's attention to it, someone else would post it.
Now I've got to catch up on the news.
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posted on
09/09/2004 9:15:27 PM PDT
by
ScottFromSpokane
(Re-elect President Bush: http://spokanegop.org/bush.html)
To: Thanatos
To: ScottFromSpokane
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