August 18, 1973This is what I'm now thinking ... I'm also thinking that these 'memos' were not 'dropped' all at once into CBS's lap (one big document dump), instead, someone 'trickled them out slowly' to SeeBS ...Since we know that this documentation is forged, I wonder if the 1973 date is itself a typo.
Some were mailed - others were faxed ... resulting in different 'forms' of the memos as they arrived at SeeBS ...
See: Crumple Analysis of documents
Several LGF readers emailed to say that if you open one of the CBS News Killian memos in Photoshop and adjust the levels, crumple marks show up on the paper. So I tried it, and here?s the result:Also - this post:-- insert image here --
This was probably done by the incredibly inept forger to increase the apparent ?age? of the document, and to make the text appear more ragged.
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.
#59Right Brain 9/14/2004 03:19PM PST
OK I am showing my age but is anyone besides me wondering if Dan Rather is the new Donald Segretti? Segretti was Nixon's inhouse document forger, a lawyer originally, most of his work was low-brow clownish stuff like ordering hundreds of pizzas on the opponents "stationery." But Dan Rathers bizarre denials of the obvious are making me shift my opinion of him from hapless victim to willing participant.
I am also starting to feel offended by people calling these documents forgeries, because that is an insult to forgers everywhere; in the community of artists and graphic designers in NYC we could forge anything, frankly. Want a handwritten note from Thomas Jefferson ordering a Big Mac, no problem. And I promise you that the paper, ink, and calligraphy would read correctly at the FBI document lab. These memos are an insult to those of us with skill, this is tantamount to faking a Van Gogh with house paint from Home Depot. I demand an apology.
With more to come as the story "develops".
Say, connecting the other pilot with cocaine.
Nothing that directly fingers Bush, that might be to easy to falsify, but enough so that the useful idiots (or in Rather's case, willing accomplice) will connect the dots.
But they never counted on a pajama party.
I think they were all dumped on CBS at the same time, and that the delivery guy from the DNC told them to how to release them over time. CBS was specifically told to hold back 2 memos so that they could use them in Phase 2 to get the cocaine angle going.