Posted on 09/13/2004 6:12:09 AM PDT by ConservativeMajority
The have been proven forgeries.
I believe Mately is the one who analysed the Vince Foster suicide note and pronounced it authentic.
Snooze, lose.
The Mary Mapes name came out over the weekend.
Gannon wouldn't release the article until Monday. Other sources revealed it over the weekend.
This, in the age of electronic information, is old news.
Yes he did. Matley was one of five experts on an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" in 1996. He was the only one to say the note was authentic, the others said it was a FORGERY.
Marcel Matley ..... the Famie Malak of documentation.
Actually, to give credit where it is due, Hannity had it ON THE AIR, Sometime last week.
That's correct. Two other handwriting experts disputed the claim of the note being Foster's.
Matley also refuted Kurt Cobain's suicide note as false. Went against two other experts on this one also.
Matley "blows with the wind".
Fahmy Malak -- correction.
Well, that's kinda huge. So what CBS did was not necessarily verify the documents through Hodges, but instead verified Killian's veracity. Hodge's said "if he wrote them", and CBS reported it as "he wrote them."
If you listened to Hannity on Friday, he gave credit to Gannon for providing the tip.
Then the program turned to Marcel Matley, identified as a "handwriting examiner" with no further credentials given, who offered his opinion that the "suicide" note is genuine. Matley believes that the "deteriorated copy" of the note.... that is, it's been copied over too many times.... and the "stress" Foster was presumably under account for the differences in handwriting. He then went on to show how Foster used different styles of letters in the genuine samples, such as both cursive and block letter "s", for example, and how the same multiple styles appear in the note; and from this he concluded that the same person wrote both the note and the samples known to be genuine.From The Contrarian's View, Vol. X, #8, March 29, 1996 .
Too true.
If he was one of ours, he'd have been hung out to dry long ago.
"He pointed out that CBS has not disclosed the source of the documents. "
Let's see -
James Carville ???
Terry McAuliffe???
Teresa Heinz Kerry ??? (Nahh, she probably hasn't the brains to operate a computer, let alone know any word-processing programs.)
Edwards?? (Nahh, he's an attorney - lying is his profession. He wouldn't screw something like this up.)
Kerry?? (Nahh. He hasn't got the imagination.)
I think it was probably Carville, McAuliffe. one of theirt creatures .... OR, an agent of CBS itself.
Read later - send to private email distribution.
It's becoming apparent that every time an "expert" testifies in favor of a democrat, that expert is covering up something.
"..Mapes was threatened with imprisonment if she failed to turn over the transcript..."
The Society of Professional Journalists gave her the 2000 First Amendment Award for her stand against a district judge's order to turn over tapes of the interview of CBS news magazine "60 Minutes II" with murder defendant Shawn Allen.
Washington Prowler
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By The Prowler
Published 9/10/2004 12:09:06 AM
More than six weeks ago, an opposition research staffer for the Democratic National Committee received documents purportedly written by President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard squadron commander, the late Col. Jerry Killian.
The oppo researcher claimed the source was "a retired military officer." According to a DNC staffer, the documents were seen by both senior staff members at the DNC, as well as the Kerry campaign.
"More than a couple people heard about the papers," says the DNC staffer. "I've heard that they ended up with the Kerry campaign, for them to decide to how to proceed, and presumably they were handed over to 60 Minutes, which used them the other night. But I know this much. When there was discussion here, there were doubts raised about their authenticity."
The concerns arose from the sourcing. "It wasn't clear that our source for the documents would have had access to them. Our person couldn't confirm from what file, from what original source they came from."
The documents that CBS News used were not documents from any of Bush's personnel files from his time in the National Guard. Rather, CBS News stated that they were documents uncovered in the personnel files of Killian. That would explain why the White House or the Pentagon had never before released or even seen them.
According to a Kerry campaign source, there was little gossip about the supposedly hot documents inside the office of the campaign on McPherson Square. "Those documents were not something anyone was talking about or trying to generate buzz on," says the staffer. "It wasn't like there were small groups of people talking about this as a bombshell. I think people here weren't sure what to make of it, because provenance of these documents was uncertain."
A CBS producer, who initially tipped off The Prowler about the 60 Minutes story, says that despite seeking professional assurances that the documents were legitimate, there was uncertainty even among the group of producers and researchers working on the story.
"The problem was we had one set of documents from Bush's file that had Killian calling Bush 'an exceptionally fine young officer and pilot.' And someone who Killian said 'performed in an outstanding manner.' Then you have these new documents and the tone and content are so different."
The CBS producer said that some alarms bells went off last week when the signatures and initials of Killian on the documents in hand did not match up with other documents available on the public record, but producers chose to move ahead with the story. "This was too hot not to push. If there were doubts, those people didn't show it," says the producer, who works on a rival CBS News program.
Now, the producer says, there is growing concern inside the building on 57th Street that they may have been suckered by the Kerry campaign. "There is a school of thought here that the Kerry people dumped this in our laps, figuring we'd do the heavy lifting on the story. That maybe they had doubts about these documents but hoped we'd get more information," says the producer. "If that's the case, then we're bigger fools than we already appear to be judging by all the chatter about how these documents could be forgeries."
ABC News' political unit held a conference call at 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening to discuss the memo and its potential ramifications should the documents turn out to be a forgery. That meeting took place around the time that the deceased Killian's son made public statements questioning the documents' authenticity.
According to one ABC News employee, some reporters believe that the Kerry campaign as well as the DNC were parties in duping CBS, but a smaller segment believe that both the DNC and the Kerry campaign were duped by Karl Rove, who would have engineered the flap to embarrass the opposition.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7096
"60 Minutes II" Executive Producer Jeffrey Fager would also be on the endangered list, since his show originated the document story.
And guess what other story Fager was involved with
Go head .. take a guess
The last line proove the DNC IS the looney left.
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