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Exclusive Interview with [TankerKC] About the Authenticity of the CBS Documents
Patterico's Pontifications ^ | September 11, 2004 | Patterico

Posted on 09/11/2004 3:52:19 PM PDT by optimistically_conservative

This is an exclusive interview with FreeRepublic commenter TankerKC, the first known person to express any doubts on the internet about the authenticity of the CBS documents....

A little background: the media has reported that a FreeRepublic.com commenter named Buckhead expressed the first doubts on the internet about the (possibly) forged CBS documents. But Buckhead himself correctly notes that the very first doubts were expressed by another FreeRepublic commenter called TankerKC. As Buckhead explained on a FreeRepublic forum board:

Victory in this case justly has a thousand fathers. Tanker KC first pegged them as fakes by the overall look, and I later noted the font issue. Many other defects have been noted by others.
Buckhead is correct: TankerKC was indeed the first known person to express any concern regarding the memos' authenticity. In this post, which he put up during the program, after briefly seeing the documents on the TV screen, TankerKC noted an issue with the signature blocks:

WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN!

They are not in the style that we used when I came in to the USAF. They looked like the style and format we started using about 12 years ago (1992). Our signature blocks were left justified, now they are rigth of center...like the ones they just showed.

Can we get a copy of those memos?

This comment was posted at 5:19 PDT -- 7:19 in TankerKC's Central Time Zone, as he explains here. Having seen the documents briefly on a TV screen, TankerKC had not had a chance to examine the more detailed discrepancies with the fonts -- issues which were raised several hours later, by Buckhead, in this post.

(Excerpt) Read more at patterico.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: rathergate
Fine job TankerKC!
1 posted on 09/11/2004 3:52:19 PM PDT by optimistically_conservative
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To: TankerKC

You da man. Go Air Force?:=}


2 posted on 09/11/2004 3:53:35 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (GIVE'M HELL, ZELL!)
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To: optimistically_conservative; jwalsh07; TankerKC; Grampa Dave; NormsRevenge

Excellent work by all who exposed the dastardly deeds of the SeeBS villains!!!


3 posted on 09/11/2004 4:03:44 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

((((ping))))


4 posted on 09/11/2004 5:06:03 PM PDT by optimistically_conservative (The soldier, be he friend or foe, is charged with the protection of the weak and the unarmed.)
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To: optimistically_conservative

Ol' Jermiah Jewett is your typical arrogant obnoxiuos little left-winger, isn't he?


5 posted on 09/11/2004 5:31:26 PM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: zip

ping


6 posted on 09/11/2004 5:56:28 PM PDT by Mrs Zip
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To: CaptRon
Ol' Jermiah Jewett is your typical arrogant obnoxiuos little left-winger, isn't he?

Yeah, but he got slammed by Ed Jordan:

Jeremiah Jewett wrote: "Here's all you need to know: One candidate served; the other ran."

Geesh! Talk about living in the past! Jeremiah, stop rehashing the 1996 Dole-Clinton contest.

8 posted on 09/11/2004 8:33:27 PM PDT by TankerKC (R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win'E American Hero)
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To: jwalsh07
Go Air Force?:=}

Nobody comes close!

9 posted on 09/14/2004 7:23:54 PM PDT by TankerKC (R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win'E American Hero)
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To: TankerKC
LOL, I love the intersevice rivalries.

Good job by the way. You started the whole ball rolling.

10 posted on 09/14/2004 7:32:01 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Rather Lied, MSM Died! Long live FreeRepublic and the Blogs!)
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