Posted on 09/09/2004 11:14:54 PM PDT by ambrose
Sept. 9, 2004, 11:40PM
Guard memos on Bush fake, says squadron leader's son
By MIKE GLENN
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
The son of President Bush's former squadron commander is disputing the authenticity of memos allegedly written by his father that are critical of Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard.
The purported 30-year-old documents were shown Wednesday on the CBS News program 60 Minutes. The show reported that the documents came from the personal files of Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, Bush's commander in the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at the former Ellington Air Force Base, now Ellington Field.
Houston businessman Gary Killian said Thursday that he doesn't believe the newly discovered documents are legitimate.
Killian said his father, who died in 1984, could barely type and usually assigned typing duties to a secretary.
"It would have been against his own self-interest to keep a memo like that on file," Killian said. "It was just not in his nature to do that."
Killian said the memos appear to be faked. In one of them, he said, his father's first name is used in the signature.
"I don't recall him ever signing with his first name," the son said.
Killian said his father did not maintain an office at home and had no secret file there where such documents would have been stored.
According to the Associated Press, the White House distributed the four memos dated from 1972 and 1973 after obtaining them from CBS News. The White House did not question their accuracy.
Killian said his father "thought well" of Bush's abilities as an Air National Guard pilot assigned to fly the F-102.
mike.glenn@chron.com
Next time they'll know how to do it better. Expect to see more tricks like this pulled in the not-so-distant future, possibly including additional "records" from Kerry. ("But it has to be authentic. See? There's the White-Out!" - invented 1951 by Bessie Nesmith -- if it's a pre-1950s document, be suspicious.)
1LT Bush
5000 Longmont #8
Houston, TX
77034
I don't know what is there now, but that address does exist. I wonder if a Houston Freeper could discover if this address could be bogus?????
Oh.... Nevermind.
If you take away the docs, they have Barnes, who has been discredited because he wasn't Lt Gov at the time he said he was, and a bunch of anonymous sources. These sources seem to be saying that, in their opinion, the docs say what they think Killian would have said, if he wrote the docs.
Those closest to Killian, his wife and son, disagree. But CBS never interviewed them.
Yellow journalism at its lowest.
bump!
This may be the most exciting Presidential race in history, it's certainly the most Dem, down and dirty!!
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