[four more in O 4]

Not certain if it means anything, but on the second memo, where the address is blacked out it says "5000 Longmont #8" UNDER the blacked out area. How is this possible that the subtle shading difference would translate across multiple copiers, and then scanning to a pdf? When was it blacked out?

I was in the military for 12 years, and never saw a memo written to someone that included the address and the city in the way it was listed. What would be the point, unless it was intended as a guard mail? The address is on the southwest side of Memorial park in Houston. Certainly outside the range of guard mail.

Very odd.

[BigMacGOP]

Jim Geraghty's Kerry Spot on NR Online has now picked up the story. I know Rush reads that particular weblog and I expect to hear something today on his show.

[mabelkitty]

I received a copy of my grandmother's social security number application, and her parents names were blacked out for privacy reasons (policy in case they were still alive).
I had no way at all of getting that information from under the black mark.

However.

If I type a letter, print it on paper with a laser printer and black mark out with a Sharpie, the laszer printed "rises" above the black marker ink. I've not scanned something like this, but I would assume the scan would remove the black mark from the raised laser on the page. I've also not tried faxing such a document.

These documents may have been faxed and received by CBS. The background marks are just too interesting.

[An.American.Expatriate]

I also find it strange that such a letter was "sent". It was however GWB's official address.