WHO faked the "60 Minutes" documents?

[Lunatic Fringe]

Who produced these documents???

CBS? The Kerry campaign? MoveOn.org? The White House? The mafia?

[savedbygrace]

This had to be a freelancer, because Rather has been pitching the segment for awhile now. It didn't get hatched last week.

We not even recognize the name of the person who did it.

[lavrenti]

Oh goody.

[ThomasPaine2000]

Howlin, That "MEMO" is positivity a forgery....

The format reflected in that document was not in the Air Force in 1972.

The "Official Air Force Letter" format was, at that time is this:

Reply to Attn of: (Name and Office Symbol (FAS)of person sending letter)

Subject:

To: (Person or Unit and Office symbol, and address)

(Subject matter of letter.)

Signature Block of sender. Left margin justified.
Name, Rank, Service
Title

This attempt is not even close...........
Retired AF Chief.

[savedbygrace]

Didn't Koppel first suggest it by asking the question?

[Remember_Salamis]

Npoe. I think the Dems will throw in the towel and save Daschle (and McAuliffe by proxy). Plus, Hillary is in a much better position by letting Bush take care of all the bad guys in the world over the next 4 years before swooping in to challenge an open GOP field.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Who is John Sasso?

[Howlin]

Bump to that!

[TheLion]

The good news is, that we are going to call them on it now.

They are so used to doing any damn thing they want....it is really going to give them a headache!

[Barlowmaker]

Yep and I have it on good authority that Rove is responsible for Kerry being forced on an unsuspecting DNC.

Worse yet, he was the Rasputin behind the Schwarzenegger smackdown of Tom McClintock. He's the marionette working the strings above the unreachable Asa Hutchinson pinata over hysteric and not-going-to-tonight's-Mensa-meeting FR border wedgies.

His scorched earth success against Dems may finally take primacy over his perceived slights against the Peroutka/Badnarik/Buchanan/Perot voters in this forum.

[Texasforever]

ROTFLMAO.

[des]

Dan Rather just had his Pierre Salinger moment.

[Eastbound]

"The guy who wrote the Report from Iron Mountain?"

The Literary Guild got taken down the primrose path on that one. They originally had it listed as non-fiction. I questioned it when it was released in the U.S. at the time and received a nice letter of confirmation. I did a review on it for a daily way back when. I still have a copy of the first edition (black, hard-bound - 1968) from McDonald & Co., London.

I think the Bush memo was written by the Elders of Zion. ;>

[Clemenza]

John Kenneth Galbraith got taken in by Iron Mountain. Of course, he was never the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[Fishman1]

"And five days beforehand, the gay and lesbian community in the back yard of Senator Edward Kennedy raised another $300,000 for the fight against the amendment"

WOW...I didn't realize Kennedy could take that much in his back yard!

[Republic]

Or perhaps a long time kerry associate, one who might have had experience with military documents, understanding the weird and circular and off medal citations,etc that have appeared backing the ga zillion medals our war hero kerry fought so valiently to attain < /sarcasm >. One wonders if the same tech goofs in the CBS memos could be applied to kerry's voluminous records. (That ones we actually have that is, since MOST have not been released to the public.) Harder to find than his book, The New Soldier, which he has also tried to keep hidden.

This is case where the source, IF NOT A PRESS PERSON, is not covered by the source protection thing, at least I think this is so.<

CBS tried to crush President Bush, and used a dead Colonel to do it, JUST ATROCIOUS! It is time for them to name names. If they don't, the FCC should step in.

This was harmful to the American people, misleading them in their process of determining who is fit to lead our nation.

[eno_]

but I don't now recall anyone mentioning that the vertical distance between the lines could or could not have been similar

Line spacing is a killer: 13 point line spacing in the forgeries. NO typewriter EVER did that.

[igoramus987]

This is what happens when you are not professional and only report one side of the story.

[okie01]

but I don't now recall anyone mentioning that the vertical distance between the lines could or could not have been similar.

The line breaks in the documents measure precisely 13 points. That is consistent with Word...and would be impossible on any typewriter ever made.

[Fedora]

Involved in the forgery? I don't have any specific suspects in the forgery yet, but my inclination would be to trace the chain of possession from CBS back to these alleged sources:

Anatomy of a Forgery

More than six weeks ago, an opposition research staffer for the Democratic National Committee received documents purportedly written by President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard squadron commander, the late Col. Jerry Killian.

The oppo researcher claimed the source was "a retired military officer." According to a DNC staffer, the documents were seen by both senior staff members at the DNC, as well as the Kerry campaign.

"More than a couple people heard about the papers," says the DNC staffer. "I've heard that they ended up with the Kerry campaign, for them to decide to how to proceed, and presumably they were handed over to 60 Minutes, which used them the other night. But I know this much. When there was discussion here, there were doubts raised about their authenticity."

The concerns arose from the sourcing. "It wasn't clear that our source for the documents would have had access to them. Our person couldn't confirm from what file, from what original source they came from."

[Mo1]

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