the only way i would think these were not real documents would be if someone on our side did it to make dan rather and the media look bad. something to get back at them for all the outrage over faulty intelligence regarding the niger yellowcake forgeries.
My sentiments exactly. I posted this on another thread an hour ago:
It seems easy enough to disprove. Find an authenticated version of Lt. Col Killian's signature and compare it to the proffered documents (it should be easy enough through probate records if not military records). These memos look fake to me. Would a fighter squadron, even in the ANG, have a PO Box address? Is it too much of a coincidence that the only two people referenced in the memo other than Bush (Killian and Harris) are both conveniently long dead? Etc., etc..
It seems a poor fake to me. Someone needs to take the initiative and prove it.
Could the source of these apparently poor fakes be someone in league with Bush? Give then some line, let the press run with it a bit, then set the hook by demonstrating it to be unequivocally a fake. It would discredit all attacks on Bush. In fact, it isn't a bad strategy - like the fake documents that discredited all the good intelligence showing an effort by Saddam to buy uranium in Niger. The good is thrown out with the bad. Maybe I should get out my old typewriter and start writing some "damaging memos?"