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 ...
Check this out...the guy who supposedly pressured the dead guy retired before the memo was dated:'
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200409091911.asp
Now that memo looks real... I have no doubt about it... Somebody should get this memo to Fox News ASAP... because the only way you get fair and balanced is to go to FOX NEWS.
Whoa there Eagle...that was one terrific post! Oh yeah. You nailed it.
Good point.
I have five boxes of papers from my Navy service, stretching back to OCS, my first active duty tours, and ten years in the Ready Reserve. I can produce fitness reports and evaluations I wrote, pay slips, nearly everything I signed as an officer, the whole nine yards.
If CBS was able to unearth a treasure trove of documents from this Lt. Col. that turned up the 2 or 3 on Bush, let's see the rest of the evidence. Let's see all of this dead officer's (deceased 1984) records, and see how many were written on $20,000 ($80,000 in today's dollars), state of the art, word-type-setting processors?
I'll bet you not another document from this man can be product by anyone, anywhere, unless it's in the USAF electronic archives. And certainly, nothing in this type of 2004 font.
SFS
Somebody from this afternoon's board was looking into the zip code. I think they had emailed the postal service.
The military didn't even start using Word Star and Word Perfect until early 80's the only thing available to the military in 1972 was a typewriter or teletype and neither one can produce that font.
This story is now doing more damage to the democrats and the left wing MSM, than they could have done to Bush, if it had been true.
Democrats around where I live all had long faces today.
Poetic justice!
I checked on one memo: the August 1, 1972 called "Memorandum For Record".
Look at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardaugust1.pdf
Look at pargraph #3 and lines two and three. I counted appox. 105 characters (even a double space after a period) on line two while line three had closer to 112 characters.
Impossible on a '70's typewriter. And all the blocks and centering are too perfect for a typewriter. Word uses the margins to proportion the type as needed and maintains space in numbering. Thus, the 1., 2., 3., is perfectly left-aligned. Again, I'm possible on a typewriter since that, even using the same width per character, a 1. or 2. just looked different. The left column is just too perfect to believe it was typed.
LOL, love the little clippy thing icon!
Another example that the wittiest people in America are FReepers!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211416/posts
I think Rather has gone insane and every kook in the world is welcome at his home.
ping
YES. One of the panelists on Brit Hume's "Special Report" said he went into "WORD" and typed one of the documents, printed it, and it was an EXACT match to the "forged" CBS document.
as i said on another post, af letterhead is printed in blue ink...you're right, a po box was never used....when i looked at the memos i knew immediately these things were bogus....my dad retired from the regular af, and i spent 19 years working for the af before transferring over to the navy (sad day), then heading over to dept of justice....anybody who spent time either in the af or working for the af can look at a supposed memo or letter on af letterhead and know what's real and what's not! i think it's time to plan kerry's funeral...and hopefully cbs's....
Now, THAT's a good metaphor. Tourist Guy was a nice touch, too.
Son of dead colonel? What's that story?
> And now the wire services begin to report the story, it now gains a life of its own...
Run! Run my child, and be free! Run like the wind!
Rather's gotta be sweating big time now.
hehehehe
rrrggg....no, I want an AUTHENTIC killian document not a FORGED one...to compare and contrast to how it overlaps with a word document..I know the FORGED one overlaps PERFECTLY with the word document.
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