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To: Howlin
He's trying to make it about everything except WHO gave him the documents.

And look at this: magically now there are SIX documents:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-09-09bushdocs.pdf


Did USA Today get these from Rather, or did they get them directly from the source.

Also, not sure if this is of any significance, but some of the spots in August 18 memo are different.
25 posted on 09/12/2004 3:07:26 AM PDT by igoramus987
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Those 2 "new" USA Today memos...may be forgeries of the forgeries?!

I was following that thread last night just b4 I went to bed. I immediately wondered if it might be a troll...something didn't seem right. The person who posted the thread had just signed up yesterday. He didn't provide a link at first, then he did. I downloaded the files, but still was suspicious. So I went directly to USA Today and tried to download them from there...couldn't do it. I tried for an hour and could not get them to download from USAT.

This morning I was able to get the pdf files at USA Today with SIX memos featured. BUT...the USAT original article includes links for the "text" of the memos in addition to the pdfs. I clicked on the "text" and found transcriptions for only the original FOUR memos. So, we're to believe that USAT has 6 memos, but only referenced the text for 4?

I believe the two new memos may be hoaxes. Could be that a troll is trying to get us off on a wild goose chase to discredit the legitimate investigations we've already done. Did they hack into USAT? Is that why I couldn't download the pdf files for over an hour last night?

(Notably, neither of the two "new" memos has a signature...and there are other anomalies.) Here's a link to the original thread:here.

USA Today article

29 posted on 09/12/2004 3:33:59 AM PDT by Timeout (My name is Timeout....and I'm a blogaholic)
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To: igoramus987
Did USA Today get these from Rather, or did they get them directly from the source.

The chain looks to be: Author -> DNC:Kerry Campaign -> CBS -> WH -> WH copies CBS memos and distributes to all press

47 posted on 09/12/2004 4:52:00 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: igoramus987
Did USA Today get these from Rather, or did they get them directly from the source.

Neither. Apparently CBS faxed copies of 6 memos to the White House, and then WH put them on a pdf file, all of them together, and sent the pdf file to all the news media.

And then stiffled a huge laugh and waited.

57 posted on 09/12/2004 5:02:55 AM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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