Posted on 09/09/2004 12:41:23 PM PDT by The G Man
After contacting several experts, a rather notable Forensic Document Examiner named Dr. Peter Bouffard took the time to examine a pdf of the documents and perform an initial visual analysis of their authenticity. Dr. Bouffard has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Michigan, but got involved in forensic examination of typefaces after working in “graphics” with NCR until 1973 and taking a two-year Certification Program in Document Examination at Georgetown University. After completing the program, he became specifically interested in typewriter classification and went to work for a prosecutor’s crime lab in Lake County, Ohio.
Using something called the Haas Atlas, the definitive collection of various typefaces, Mr. Bouffard (and other forensic document examiners) examined the veracity of various documents for over 30 years. Beginning in 1988, Mr. Bouffard hired a programmer to write a computer database program that catalogues the nearly 4,000 typefaces that appear in the Haas Atlas. This computer program is now a forensic standard that is sold as a companion to the Haas Atlas by American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE).
What did Dr. Bouffard think of the documents?
First, the necessary caveats:
• The pdf document is of poor quality. It seems to have been copied and recopied several times, blurring letter characteristics.
• Also, certain types of analysis can only be done on the original documents, which don’t seem to be available, even to CBS.
So Dr. Bouffard is very clear that his analysis is not 100% positive. That being said …
“It’s just possible that this might be a Times Roman font, which means that it would have been created on a computer. It’s very possible that someone decided to create this document on a computer... I’ve run across this situation before … my gut is this could just well be a fabrication.”
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SNIP
OUCH!
BUSTED!!!!!!!!
All your fonts are belong to us.
Hey, Dan, I have a $500 bill! Would you mind changing it for me?
harharhar
My first reaction was to think this was "a little exercise in creative writing" too. Heck I've still got a few reams of paper so old that I could write up some old documents myself. I'm glad to see an expert is on board that can discredit the Leftie smear attempts. The problem, will the MSM give the refutation claims the same coverage they gave the frauds?
Zounds! CBS got bitten by the moose.
I would like to see what IBM has to say. Surely come lurking congressional staff sleuth could put in a request for IBM to evaluate the memos.
CBS probably knows that they are fake....but what do you expect them to do?? Just because they are fake that shouldn't change their reporting. It hasn't change it before, why start now?
I would like to see what IBM has to say. Surely some lurking congressional staff sleuth could put in a request for IBM to evaluate the memos.
You laugh too hard, you cry, you nervous looking biased shakey twit.
The MSM is in a battle for its very life with the Blogosphere and New Media they would be fools to ignore this.
This campaign is really getting unbelievable - Everything from the dim-bulb side is complete fraud! John FRAUD Kerry going down in flames.
Random thinking here but...
If I was a PA on 60 Minutes charged with creating the digital graphics for this story the following might happen:
After scanning the original documents I find they are illegible digitally. So I retype verbatim screen shot, bring it into PhotoShop, paste, apply a dimestore old XEROX filter, then photoshop out the signature and place it. Deadline met, the stylized graphic for production has been created. In general the networks do not require the actual document be shown, they have often in the past insisted it is ok to display the actual text in whatever format meets their production needs. So long as the content is not changed.
It needs to be confirmed that those images on the web, and in the show are images of the actual documents before this story goes on.
-- l8s
-- jrawk
60 Minutes is in series trouble.
Freepers have been vindicated! There ARE conspiracies. Now if we could make similar progress with Vince Foster, Ron Brown, Flight 800.......
No they aren't...unless this info gets into the PUBLIC by other major media!!!
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