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Authenticity of Bush memos questioned Typographical, formatting questions emerge
MSNBC ^ | September 10,2004 | Michael Dobbs and Mike Allen

Posted on 09/10/2004 12:44:20 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776

Documents unearthed by CBS News that raise doubts about whether President Bush fulfilled his obligations to the Texas Air National Guard include several features suggesting that they were generated by a computer or word processor rather than a Vietnam War-era typewriter, experts said yesterday.

Experts consulted by a range of news organizations pointed typographical and formatting questions about four documents as they considered the possibility that they were forged. The widow of the National Guard officer whose signature is on the bottom of the documents also disputed their authenticity.

The documents, which were aired Wednesday night on "60 Minutes II," bear dates from 1972 and 1973 and include an order for Bush to report for his annual physical exam and a discussion of how he could get out of "coming to drill."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: killian; rathergate; seebsnews
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Geeeze Dan Blather, even MSNBC is telling how you used forged documents. Liar!
1 posted on 09/10/2004 12:44:20 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

And we all thought that the GOP Convention was fun.This is even better! Just wait until President Bush wins the election in a landslide...the Dems will go completely starkers.


2 posted on 09/10/2004 12:46:30 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: AmericanMade1776

hmmmmm, not so fast, MSNBC. You fell for it, too. It took Web-blogs to uncover this fraud -- with no help from Big Media.


3 posted on 09/10/2004 12:47:29 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: AmericanMade1776
Proof of a forgery!



4 posted on 09/10/2004 12:47:32 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: nopardons

President George W. Bush will win re election, but someone should pay for this outright forgery attempt as fact at CBS.


5 posted on 09/10/2004 12:47:46 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: nopardons
the Dems will go completely starkers...

Too late...

6 posted on 09/10/2004 12:47:57 AM PDT by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: GOPcapitalist

In a telephone interview from her Texas home, Killian's widow, Marjorie Connell, described the records as "a farce," saying she was with her husband until the day he died in 1984 and he did not "keep files." She said her husband considered Bush "an excellent pilot."


7 posted on 09/10/2004 12:48:37 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: AmericanMade1776

Yes,they should be held accountable...BIG TIME!


8 posted on 09/10/2004 12:48:50 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: clee1

True.........LOL


9 posted on 09/10/2004 12:49:11 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: AmericanMade1776

Questions? Questions? There is no question, they're forged, end of story.


10 posted on 09/10/2004 12:49:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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William Flynn, a forensic document specialist with 35 years of experience in police crime labs and private practice, said the CBS documents raise suspicions because of their use of proportional spacing techniques. Documents generated by the kind of typewriters that were widely used in 1972 space letters evenly across the page, so that an "i" uses as much space as an "m." In the CBS documents, by contrast, each letter uses a different amount of space.


11 posted on 09/10/2004 12:50:05 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: AmericanMade1776

Bully for her!!!!!


12 posted on 09/10/2004 12:50:38 AM PDT by Ruth A.
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To: nopardons

CBS is already heehawing around, trying to avoid this by claiming they are not forged....tsk, tsk, tsk....


13 posted on 09/10/2004 12:51:23 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: nopardons

Aren't ya loving this? I know I am ;-)


14 posted on 09/10/2004 12:51:30 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: clee1
senior CBS official, who asked not to be named because CBS managers did not want to go beyond their official statement, named one of the network's sources as retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, the immediate superior of the documents' alleged author, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He said that a CBS reporter read the documents to Hodges over the phone, and that Hodges replied that "these are the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time."

Here's the next challenge - find the links from this guy to the Kerry campaign and MoveOn.org.

15 posted on 09/10/2004 12:51:52 AM PDT by Steven W.
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To: AmericanMade1776

They're going to oh sooooooooooooooooooooooooo SORRY!


16 posted on 09/10/2004 12:52:08 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: GOPcapitalist

So what's the DU saying??? :-P


17 posted on 09/10/2004 12:52:21 AM PDT by PureSolace (I love freedom.)
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Yes,they should be held accountable...BIG TIME!

Yes, they should be, but it's unlikely. Look no further than Sandy Burglar. Swiping classified documents from the National Archives, no less. It sickens me, this biased crap.

18 posted on 09/10/2004 12:53:10 AM PDT by Jenya (Buy Unfit for Command. Donate to Swiftvets.com. It's your American duty.)
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To: JohnHuang2
I'm just besides myself with glee!

Just look at what Howlin and Buckhead have managed to pull off. :-)

19 posted on 09/10/2004 12:53:24 AM PDT by nopardons
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"they" are just hoping this will go away, CBS....but it isn't......


20 posted on 09/10/2004 12:53:59 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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