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To: MrChips

No.

There are two sets of documents.

The AP got Bush's flight records through a FOIA lawsuit earlier in the week.

Here is how Rather explained it last night on 60 Mintues:

But 60 Minutes has obtained a number of documents we are told were taken from Col. Killian's personal file. Among them, a never-before-seen memorandum from May 1972, where Killian writes that Lt. Bush called him to talk about "how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November."

Lt. Bush tells his commander "he is working on a campaign in Alabama…. and may not have time to take his physical." Killian adds that he thinks Lt. Bush has gone over his head, and is "talking to someone upstairs."

Col. Killian died in 1984. 60 Minutes consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic.

The problem is that appear to be forgeries.


10 posted on 09/09/2004 9:03:11 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: Howlin

Oh, I see! There are two separate stories here. The AP got some documents, but not these. These just mysteriously turned up at CBS. Do I have it right?


26 posted on 09/09/2004 9:08:30 PM PDT by MrChips (ARD)
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To: Howlin

This has Sasso's "M O " written all over it.


47 posted on 09/09/2004 9:20:38 PM PDT by bioprof
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To: Howlin; MrChips

Good summary - except per WorldNetDaily, CBS has backed off from its prior claim that they used outside experts.


80 posted on 09/09/2004 10:20:44 PM PDT by ambrose (http://www.swiftvets.com/)
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