[Pete]

Good work. Another piece in the puzzle.

[finnman69]

I thought this was an intersting piece of forensic analysis that could come in handy.

[mattdono]

To: CBS

All your forgeries are belong to us!

[Kryptonite]

This might explain why the MS Word docs don't match the copied forgeries perfectly, although they already are extremely close to perfect matches.

[Cubs Fan]

Seems to me forging government documents is probably a crime. Isn't it time for the FBI to look into this?

[Good.V.Evil]

That could be important.

[Chummy]

If done with a "plug-in" filter for a Photoshop-type app (PS, PSP, for example), one can make any image appear as if it was printed on a crumpled piece of paper.

It's simple. It's quick.

It's yet another reason SeeBS is showing how out-of-touch they are, not only with the truth, but with the basics of the digital age in which we live.

It's all reminding me of the Magritte painting of a pipe that reads (in French), "This is not a pipe."

[hoosiermama]

SO the original was crumpled up before it was smoothed out and photo copied? DId someone take it out of a trash can? Was it crumpled up to make it look like it was taken out of a trash can or just to make it look "used"?

[Snake65]

They just forgot to pour tea on it and gnaw at the edges ala Schindler's List with the Blauschein.

[Quicksilver]

CBS still hasn't said what media they received the forgeries in: printed, faxed, or digital; if digital, what format?

[Republican Wildcat]

Exactly as some on here predicted had occurred.

Good post.

[FesterUSMC]

The lead expert retained by CBS News to examine disputed memos from President Bush's former squadron commander in the National Guard said yesterday that he examined only the late officer's signature and made no attempt to authenticate the documents themselves.

"There's no way that I, as a document expert, can authenticate them," Marcel Matley said in a telephone interview from San Francisco. The main reason, he said, is that they are "copies" that are "far removed" from the originals.

[Jorge]

It looks wrinkled :)

[kidd]

Ok. Now were talking 'Shroud of Turin'.

Quick - someone look at the negative image of this.

[John Jamieson]

Please check the document for Sandy Berger DNA. Secretary says Army speak used in docs.

[Terabitten]

There's another interesting point here that I haven't seen anyone comment on. Try this one at home, kids!

Sign your name, print, or type something, whatever, on a sheet of paper. Take a black magic marker and line through it. Then make a photocopy of that document, or, to be more true to form, go through fifteen generations of copying. Hold the two up to the light. On the original, it's VERY easy to see the original information you marked out. On the final copy, though, it's impossible, because the photocopier only picks up the black mark, not the underlying writing.

This to me is incredibly damning evidence against CBS. They can't produce original documents because there aren't any.

They did up a MS Word document, photocopied it fifteen or twenty times, crumpled it up, and THEN blacked out the pertinent information. Otherwise, the info would NOT be visible through the blackout. It's physically impossible.

[edpc]

Yep...and if you look in the right hand corner, it appears that someone wiped their posterior with it. That's about all it's worth.

[knarf]

Hmmm ... interesting.
It looks more to me like the paper had been sat on. Maybe one or more put into an 8 by 11 manilla envelope and put on the driver's seat while he or she drove to work.
Right under the signature ... that's fart deflection if I ever saw it !

[Paleo Conservative]

I?ll bet that if the real printed originals of these documents ever turn up (say, in a dumpster behind MoveOn.org headquarters), they?ll find the idiot?s fingerprints on them.

I'm sure the original was shredded.

[finnman69]

ping