Posted on 09/10/2004 9:54:14 PM PDT by The Bandit
On Wednesday CBS 60-Minutes II had a former friend and colleague of Col. Jerry Killian suggesting the "Killian memo's were genuine.
"They are compatible with the way business was done at the time. They are compatible with the man that I remember Jerry Killian being," says Strong. "I don't see anything in the documents that is discordant with what were the times, what was the situation and what were the people involved."
On a Friday Mr. Strong said he did not see anything in the memos that made him think they were forgeries. Mr. Strong noted he's not a forensic expert and isn't vouching for the documents.
"I didn't see anything that was inconsistent with how we did business," Strong said in an interview. "It looked like the sort of thing that Jerry Killian would have done or said. He was a very professional guy."
"It Looked like the sort of thing that" that Jerry Killian could have done or said? But Mr. Strong never goes out and says, "Yes, this is a practice Jerry Killian had and I have seen him type these kind of memo's." In other words, Mr. Strong offered no first hand support to the CBS charge that these memos were a product of Jerry Killian. Hardly someone that adds any serious support to the CBS memo's contents.
Yet both Wednesday and Friday, Mr. Strong was the only associate of Jerry Killian quoted by CBS as supporting the memo's contents.
Retired Col. Maurice Udell, the unit's instructor pilot who helped train Bush, said Friday he thought the documents were fake.
"I completely am disgusted with this (report) I saw on '60 Minutes,'" Udell said. "That's not true. I was there. I knew Jerry Killian. I went to Vietnam with Jerry Killian in 1968."
If I were Dan Rather and CBS I would be listening to those who knew Jerry Killian best and closest to him. I also think it is a safe bet that we haven't heard the last from Robert Strong since he is yet to say anything conclusive.
Udell, another Colonel that didn't get checked off on the list of people CBS intended to interview.
Doesn't look like a very "Strong" witness for diaper dan.
It would be interesting to hear from Mr. Strong as to what exactly CBS disclosed to him. Are his comments directly related to the new documents that the govt released, or, the photocopied letters that dan blather is ..well... blathering about (they are not one and the same). I got the sense that Mr. Strong may have been dupped and was not shown the blathering documents.
Dan Rather was on video cam at BigLots seen purchasing a shopping basket full of Depends and other assorted health products.......Developing.....
Can you source this, I am logging all the discrepancys on my blog and I need to source it.
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