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?)
I believe it was John Kerry himself. The method of his 'gaming' in Unfit for Command was to file fraudlent reports to make himself look good. It's the same old game only this time, the dirty commie was caught red handed.
Altered? Things that match 99.9% accurately with a hasty rewriting in MS Word Circa 2004 are not "altered", they are manufactured out of whole cloth!
The Dems really, really do think we are all stupid sheep. They make me sick.
Excellent theory. Releasing it closer to the election (a la the drunk driving tripe) would have narrowed the time to prove them fake. Of course, it took us less than 12 hours here, so it probably wouldn't have mattered...
B U M P
And what is the penalty for deliberately forging a document to undermine, defame and discredit the President during a time of war?
Ironic and Awesome.
We're getting our revenge for the Karter/Klintoon years.
It ain't over yet.
I'm thinking the "experts" at CBS were hired to manufacture good fakes. Yes, I am beginning to think CBS was in on the scam, rather than just the duped victim of the scam. Sure they wanted it to be true and that helped. But it's that whole line about having their experts check it out that damns them the most.
the documents are amateurish only in retrospect.
Just damm!
Pray for W and Our Troops
"The Gang that Couldn't Type Straight."
BTTT!
and LOL!
They don't even know how the military operates? </sarcasm off
LOL! A classic.
How large is Rather's staff? Does he take "research" from the DNC or their spin-off fronts?
If he's "fed" the "news" is there an inherent bias to keep his handlers in power?
Is there a conflict of interest when your "news" is from people out power? Is there incentive to slant news to get "your guys" back in?
Does Rather have a dog in this fight?
If the DNC is doing Rather's work for him, what are they getting in return? What's the cost? Does CBS pay with their reputation for Rather's "scoops"?
What is the is the coin of the realm for a one-sided "bribe" in the news field? Is it information?
Some meth junkie needed money fast. Not his best job of forgery but it only has to fool one person.
Dan Rather should resign or be fired !!
CBS news should fire Dan Rather for not being absolutely positively certain of the authenticity of these forged documents. We are in the absolute final leg of a Presidential election and Dan Rather rushed to press to get these dociuments on the air because he thought it would potentially help Kerry and hurt Bush. He is blinded by his partisanship and is not fit to be a journalist.
Dan Rather never even looked into where these papers came from. It was his job to be CERTAIN of their authenticity. It's fitting that Rather's career comes to an end under this cloud of his extremist partisanship. He will always be remembered for this. His legacy will be fitting....a reporter who would lie to America if it supported his Left Wing Ideology.
In the past yeare whenever these phoney stories like the Plame/Wilson mess were released by the main stream mediots, a Yahoo or Google search showed that these lies/stories had been blogged for months.
The NY Slimes released that series of lies re Plame/Wilson.
In this case CBS was the big time releaser.
When I see a new mainline mediot hit on GW, I do a Yahoo search. Often there are thousands of hits from the leftwing blogging sites re the latest smear.
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