Posted on 09/10/2004 7:56:35 AM PDT by TonyInOhio
THE CBS PAPERS [Jed Babbin]
I spoke to Col. Bill Campenni (USAF ret) earlier this morning. As I've written before, Campenni was a member of the President's squadron and flew with him often. Campenni told me that there are a whole slew of reasons -- beyond those being debated now -- to question the authenticity of the CBS papers:
1. The 4 May 1972 order and the 1 August 1972 memo both have a letterhead for the wrong organization. Correspondence and orders in those days would be issued in the name of the parent organization -- the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group -- rather than the squadron. The letterhead is typed. They used printed ANG letterhead;
2. Orders were issued on the standard USAF orders form. (I still have a stack of my old ones. There's not a "memo" among them). Campenni remembers that orders weren't issued as "memos" like the 4 May 72 document;
3. The Killian "CYA" memo of August 1973 refers to pressure by Gen. Standt. The problem with this is that Standt retired in 1972. Why would anyone be worried about pressure from him?
4. Jerry Killian, according to Campenni, never went near a typewriter. In the Air Force, in those days, notes -- if anyone kept them at all -- were handwritten. That raises questions about both the 19 May 72 and the 18 August 73 memos. And, lest we forget, bureaucrats -- not fighter jocks -- write "cya" memos.
5. Orders -- like the purported 4 May 72 order to take the flight physical - wouldn't normally have been signed by Killian. They would be signed by a senior sergeant "by order of" Killian.
If, as it appears, someone faked these papers they did a bad job of it. I can tell you that in the early to mid-1970's when I was on active duty, the active service didn't have anything fancier than the earliest models of the IBM Selectric typewriter, and many offices didn't even have those. The reserves and national guard had our cast-offs, so it's terribly unlikely they could have produced anything as fancy as these papers. (Is it just my imagination, or is Dan Rather's nose growing longer every day?)
why stop there?
secrets to the chinese or
letters to his mistress hiding in kenya come to mind...
Hey Registered, do you think you could create a 60 minutes watch gif that ticks down and explodes at 8:59:43?
Tick Tick Tick Tick.
(s)Micheal Moore: This was an intentional warning shot to kerry. The bush/saudi/industrial military complex is warning kerry to loose or much better forgeries will come out. Its all a conspiracy!(/s)
So true.
And I thought all those KGB agents the DNC & Kerry hired were actually good at his stuff -- silly me.
"They never thought that their fraud would be uncovered even before the program was over."
The arrogance of the lunatic left's limo mediots is incredible. They still think that they control the news, and they can lie about anything.
"Hey Registered, do you think you could create a 60 minutes watch gif that ticks down and explodes at 8:59:43?"
Something along the lines of the Coyote on the Road Runner Cartoons?
"Tick Tick Tick Tick."
The Ice Age for the ABCNNBC BS new dinosaurs has happened. They just don't realize that their time is about up.
"The bush/saudi/industrial military complex is warning kerry to loose or much better forgeries will come out. Its all a conspiracy!(/s)"
You left out Rove/Cheney/Haliburton/Vast Ultra Right Wing Conspiracy.
LOL. Excellent!
I think it came out of Texas, via the Texas Veterans for Truth (!).
I can hardly wait to read Susan Estrich's next column.
I agree. This has Hillary written all over it.
Hey, we still have, and use, a functioning IBM Selectric from the period in question. I told my husband he better get more locks for the doors so it doesn't get stolen by the opposition.
BINGO! You win the prize. Wasn't it just at the end of last week that we were told that the Clintonistas were coming on board the Kerry campaign to "help out" with their expertise?
Well, I will give 'em a call since it will be an interview for an article, not just a complaint.
They still will hang up on me.
This is the time for using the phrase FRAUDcasters, if ever there was such a time, and connecting it to all the Old Media.
Everyone is now paying attention.
No commander EVER signed such orders. Orders were signed by his deputy or the base Adjutant.
Even better:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/03/110687.shtml
Indymedia.org team in merger talks with CBS/Viacom
George Soros, CEO of Indymedia.org ltd has begun merger talks with the CBS/Viacom News Network to help bring together the Vibrant Staff of the Independant News Network with the resources and Global Consumer Reach of the CBS news network. This follows a meeting of the IMC Board of Directors and key Indymedia shareholders where it was decided that Indymedia needed to branch out from its traditional Liberal readership demographic to encompass more mainstream news interests and readerships....
Oh my, that and my gin and tonic just ended the day for me.
damming?
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