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"Are the CBS National Guard Documents Fake?" (Font expert says gut tells him its a fabrication!)
In DC Journal ^ | 9/9/04

Posted on 09/09/2004 12:41:23 PM PDT by The G Man

After contacting several experts, a rather notable Forensic Document Examiner named Dr. Peter Bouffard took the time to examine a pdf of the documents and perform an initial visual analysis of their authenticity. Dr. Bouffard has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Michigan, but got involved in forensic examination of typefaces after working in “graphics” with NCR until 1973 and taking a two-year Certification Program in Document Examination at Georgetown University. After completing the program, he became specifically interested in typewriter classification and went to work for a prosecutor’s crime lab in Lake County, Ohio.

Using something called the Haas Atlas, the definitive collection of various typefaces, Mr. Bouffard (and other forensic document examiners) examined the veracity of various documents for over 30 years. Beginning in 1988, Mr. Bouffard hired a programmer to write a computer database program that catalogues the nearly 4,000 typefaces that appear in the Haas Atlas. This computer program is now a forensic standard that is sold as a companion to the Haas Atlas by American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE).

What did Dr. Bouffard think of the documents?

First, the necessary caveats:

• The pdf document is of poor quality. It seems to have been copied and recopied several times, blurring letter characteristics.

• Also, certain types of analysis can only be done on the original documents, which don’t seem to be available, even to CBS.

So Dr. Bouffard is very clear that his analysis is not 100% positive. That being said …

“It’s just possible that this might be a Times Roman font, which means that it would have been created on a computer. It’s very possible that someone decided to create this document on a computer... I’ve run across this situation before … my gut is this could just well be a fabrication.”

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SNIP


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ang; bouffard; bush; cbs; fake; forgerie; forgery; indcjournal; killian
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Read the rest. I'm actually starting to believe this!
1 posted on 09/09/2004 12:41:24 PM PDT by The G Man
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To: The G Man
I asked him to put a percentage on the chances that this was a fake, and he said that was "hard to put a number on it." I then suggested "90%?" Again he said it's "hard to put an exact number, but I'd say it's at least that high, sure. I pretty much agree that that font is Times New Roman."

OUCH!

2 posted on 09/09/2004 12:42:40 PM PDT by The G Man (I'm mad as ZELL and I'm not gonna take it anymore!)
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To: The G Man

BUSTED!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 09/09/2004 12:45:31 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (WE WILL WIN WITH W - Isara)
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To: The G Man

All your fonts are belong to us.


4 posted on 09/09/2004 12:46:14 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (WE WILL WIN WITH W - Isara)
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To: The G Man
Dan Rather is known to hate the Bushes--a grudge going back a long way in Texas.

Hey, Dan, I have a $500 bill! Would you mind changing it for me?

harharhar

5 posted on 09/09/2004 12:47:06 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: The G Man

My first reaction was to think this was "a little exercise in creative writing" too. Heck I've still got a few reams of paper so old that I could write up some old documents myself. I'm glad to see an expert is on board that can discredit the Leftie smear attempts. The problem, will the MSM give the refutation claims the same coverage they gave the frauds?


6 posted on 09/09/2004 12:47:56 PM PDT by holyscroller (Actions speak louder than bumperstickers)
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To: You Dirty Rats

Zounds! CBS got bitten by the moose.


7 posted on 09/09/2004 12:48:50 PM PDT by Frumious Bandersnatch
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To: You Dirty Rats
All your fonts are belong to us.

Quote of the day!
8 posted on 09/09/2004 12:49:51 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism)
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To: The G Man

I would like to see what IBM has to say. Surely come lurking congressional staff sleuth could put in a request for IBM to evaluate the memos.


9 posted on 09/09/2004 12:50:55 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: The G Man

CBS probably knows that they are fake....but what do you expect them to do?? Just because they are fake that shouldn't change their reporting. It hasn't change it before, why start now?


10 posted on 09/09/2004 12:51:19 PM PDT by parthian shot
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To: The G Man

I would like to see what IBM has to say. Surely some lurking congressional staff sleuth could put in a request for IBM to evaluate the memos.


11 posted on 09/09/2004 12:51:21 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: The G Man
Dan thought this little "exclusive expose" was going to go a long way towards insuring his horse won the race! Probably was whooping it up with staffers before going on the air with it.

You laugh too hard, you cry, you nervous looking biased shakey twit.

12 posted on 09/09/2004 12:51:37 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: The G Man
SEE B.S. lives up to its name.
13 posted on 09/09/2004 12:51:38 PM PDT by goodnesswins (VICTORY...........brings peace.)
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To: holyscroller

The MSM is in a battle for its very life with the Blogosphere and New Media they would be fools to ignore this.


14 posted on 09/09/2004 12:52:02 PM PDT by aft_lizard (I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him)
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To: You Dirty Rats
Someone set us up the FONT!

This campaign is really getting unbelievable - Everything from the dim-bulb side is complete fraud! John FRAUD Kerry going down in flames.

15 posted on 09/09/2004 12:52:24 PM PDT by GaltMeister (This is not my tagline. My family has it. The tagline belongs to my family.)
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To: The G Man

Random thinking here but...

If I was a PA on 60 Minutes charged with creating the digital graphics for this story the following might happen:

After scanning the original documents I find they are illegible digitally. So I retype verbatim screen shot, bring it into PhotoShop, paste, apply a dimestore old XEROX filter, then photoshop out the signature and place it. Deadline met, the stylized graphic for production has been created. In general the networks do not require the actual document be shown, they have often in the past insisted it is ok to display the actual text in whatever format meets their production needs. So long as the content is not changed.

It needs to be confirmed that those images on the web, and in the show are images of the actual documents before this story goes on.

-- l8s
-- jrawk


16 posted on 09/09/2004 12:53:25 PM PDT by jrawk
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To: The G Man

60 Minutes is in series trouble.


17 posted on 09/09/2004 12:53:36 PM PDT by crv16
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To: dead
AP reporting that the forgeries came from the WH. We ALL know that is not true...CBS admitted getting them from Killian's personal files!
18 posted on 09/09/2004 12:54:08 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: The G Man

Freepers have been vindicated! There ARE conspiracies. Now if we could make similar progress with Vince Foster, Ron Brown, Flight 800.......


19 posted on 09/09/2004 12:54:13 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Santorum 2008)
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To: crv16

No they aren't...unless this info gets into the PUBLIC by other major media!!!


20 posted on 09/09/2004 12:54:44 PM PDT by Jewels1091
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