[Law is not justice but process]

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?"

[M1911A1]

My reserve unit uses a PO box.

There may be other reasons to question these documents, but the PO box isn't one of them.

[Oblongata]

"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.."

What we really need to do is find a real memo produced by Killian or Harris at about the same time, and then compare.

[Joe Hadenuf]

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.

This may or may not be the case here.

However, as I'm sure you are aware, this wouldn't be the first time this type of scheme were used. Even if this were true in this specific case, it's very possible that it was done without the knowledge of the person or subject in question.

[mwdouglass]

Is it not an option for Killian's family to enlist FBI help in filing charges of fraud and forgery: against CBS to force revealing their "source" for the bogus documents.

- mwd
Houston, TX