Posted on 09/09/2004 5:58:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Washington, DC, Sep. 9 (UPI) -- The Cybercast News Service reported Thursday documents casting doubt on the U.S. president's national guard service might be fakes.
CNS, an Internet-based news organization affiliated with a conservative media watchdog group, said the 32-year-old documents used by CBS to cast "a negative light on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, may have been forged using a current word processing program."
The news organization said three independent typography tests indicated "they were suspicious of the documents" because they used a modern Microsoft Word font feature that was not available in 1972 or 1973.
The documents were featured Wednesday on "60 Minutes II" and allegedly came from the personal files of former Bush squadron Cmdr. Jerry B. Killian, now dead.
CBS will not say how it obtained them. John Collins, the chief technology officer of Bitstream, Inc., cited the use of a superscript "th" in one document as a reason to be suspicious. "That would not be possible on a typewriter or even a word processor at that time," Collins said. "It is a very surprising thing to see a letter with that date (May 4, 1972) on it.
There's no question that that is surprising. Does that force you to conclude that it's a fake? No. But it certainly raises the eyebrows."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Has any one done a Word type up of a known authentic document from killian and "overlap" them, they way that littlegreenfootball.com did with the suspected forgeries????
Well done, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!
bump (for more exposure)...
(for the Biblical crowd: last phrase of Numbers 32:23)
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Let's Roll over see-BS
Hannity just did a teaser lead in on the story. Oh Yeah
There is no Vast Right Wing Conspiracy... Just The Conspiracy of Common Sense... ;-)
I don't remeber seeing if any of those documents had standard military date and time formats. Anyone else know?
Brilliant! :-)
Post No.4 is one for your toons in the morning! :-)
1..Documents on 60 minutes are FAKE!
2.Son of dead Col cast doubt on story.
3.Ben Barnes daughter said he lied.
4.Sharon Bush discredits Kitty Kelley.
A day that started off gloomy sure has ended on a high note.
The stupid, left-wing media has risked all on the Kerry campaign, as well as their ongoing OBVIOUS support to unseat Bush. A disgusting situation.
Let us hope they get caught with more egg on their faces, as Chris Matthews has, etc. These people are really lost and wandering in the desert...they have never had to compete with honest, fair media sources, or be accountable for they have been printing/saying. They are in a major panic, because they have been caught and exposed supporting a pathetic treasonous major Marxist, for President....who is a very ugly candidate, and a frightful option as Commander in Chief.
I think we will see alot of back-pedaling very soon from these losers in the media...we know who they are.
Yes.
And so did Fox News.
we know at least one of the alleged forged one matches up very well with a current "word" processing reproduction...I am currious on how a Known killian AUTHENTIC document would match up to a "word" processing reproduction.
IMO, the forgeries came from a house in Chappaqua. This wouldn't have been exposed so fast if the Clintons didn't want them to. Whoever the plumber was, you can bet it was a Clintonista.
ROFLMAO!
Great!
hopefully showing an authentic document DOES NOT match to a word document.
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