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THE CBS PAPERS (more damming evidence!)
The Corner on National Review Online ^ | 09/10/04 | Jed Babbin

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?)


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; 60minutes; bush; camejo; campenni; cbsbull; cheney; documentforgerygate; dubya; edwards; election; gwb; itisspelleddamn; kerry; killian; nader; napalminthemorning; rather; ratherbiased; ratherforgerygate; rathergate; spellcheckisafriend
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To: Maria S
I heard George Steph. say that (paraphrasing) the "Kerry camp" is possibly thinking that the WH may have altered them!


41 posted on 09/10/2004 8:12:29 AM PDT by Samwise (Kerry is a self-made man. He created a doofus.)
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To: TonyInOhio

FORGERY CAN BE FUN!


42 posted on 09/10/2004 8:12:50 AM PDT by mfulstone
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To: Grampa Dave

bump


43 posted on 09/10/2004 8:13:34 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: TonyInOhio

bttt


44 posted on 09/10/2004 8:14:37 AM PDT by Loopy Picklefink (All your votes are belong to us! Bush/Cheney '04)
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To: TonyInOhio

"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)."

This is the REAL smoking gun! As I have stated in other posts, just pull out your "old" military records and check them against these frauds! It is the best, and easiest way to verify authenticity.

I served one year in ANG and 9 years in USAF. I have all of my orders. They have been useful throughout the years.


46 posted on 09/10/2004 8:15:22 AM PDT by olinr
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To: TonyInOhio
John Kerry's

Campaign
OH! THE HUMANITY

47 posted on 09/10/2004 8:15:43 AM PDT by MJY1288 (John Kerry Says He Can Do a Better Job of Implementing President Bush's Policies :-))
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To: TonyInOhio

What other CBS smears include forged documents?


48 posted on 09/10/2004 8:17:49 AM PDT by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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To: All

60 Minutes Spokesperson: Kelli Edwards 212-975-6795


49 posted on 09/10/2004 8:17:49 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: GOPJ
It's time for real coverage of how the news is made. Here's some questions for CBS:

How large is Rather's staff?

Seems kinda personal doesn't it?

50 posted on 09/10/2004 8:17:52 AM PDT by The_Victor
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To: gopwinsin04
Two questions...........

1) Just who bought Craig Livingstone a copier and WP program last week?

2) Who hird Craig Livingstone (again)?

51 posted on 09/10/2004 8:18:41 AM PDT by blackdog (Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
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To: TonyInOhio
Who could have produced such an amateurish smear? I smell a Clintonista "helping out" the Kerry campaign. :)

I have no doubt the memos are fake. But if someone from the Kerry campaign was going to leak fake memos, then why aren't the memos more damaging to GW? The damage isn't from the the memo's, but from the Dem shills in the MSM rehashing old stuff, while ignoring the 260 something Swiftboat Vets.

52 posted on 09/10/2004 8:19:37 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: gopwinsin04
My first job out'ta college was at a print shop doing layout & design.

For documents that were to be photographed ... and then to plate/print... you used a typewriter with a limited variety of 'spaced-fonts'. 'Hot-type'(galley type) was still being used for legal documents back then.(1971-1973)

Photo-type was used exclusively for upscale catalogs, brochures, slides and overhead presentations.

That the National Guard in 1972-73 would use photo-type(the only way to get real superscript) in a series of 'memo's' is a scam of monumental proportions!

53 posted on 09/10/2004 8:21:06 AM PDT by johnny7 (“ ...It's the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong century at the... !” -'Ghengis John' Kerry)
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To: TonyInOhio

4 May 72 order - Military flight physicals are based on birth month, and good to the end of the month. Bush would not have been ordered and failed to perform letter issued before flt phy was due in July.


54 posted on 09/10/2004 8:21:18 AM PDT by LowNslow (Retired CWO)
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To: nuconvert
And what is the penalty for deliberately forging a document to undermine, defame and discredit the President during a time of war?

Probably about the same as going into a secure room and stuffing classified documents down your socks and stealing them.....nada; zip; nary a nary.

55 posted on 09/10/2004 8:21:32 AM PDT by ErnBatavia ("Dork"; a 60's term for a 60's kinda guy: JFK)
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To: Mo1

Oh, to be a fly on the wall in camp Kerry....................


56 posted on 09/10/2004 8:23:18 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Slicksadick
"I don't see anything in the documents that is discordant with what were the times, what was the situation and what were the people involved."

Kilian's son said he seriously doubts that his father would have written those memo's. I heard this on the radio while driving...sorry I have no details but maybe someone else does.

57 posted on 09/10/2004 8:23:22 AM PDT by Mogollon
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To: Labyrinthos

"then why aren't the memos more damaging to GW?"

I believe this was the first of a flurry of forged/created documents to be released before November. The FR threw a tie across the tracks. Good job, but stay alert, they will get more vicious as time goes on!


58 posted on 09/10/2004 8:24:48 AM PDT by olinr
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To: Buckhead; Howlin; TankerKC

More info......it just keeps coming! LOL


59 posted on 09/10/2004 8:25:04 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Dan Rather's GOTCHA got him.)
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To: Frank_Discussion
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!
Very good point. I would add that they were created with the intent of altering the election of the president of the United States Of America.

Maybe the FBI should investigate but we don' need no steenkin' congressional investigation! ;-)

60 posted on 09/10/2004 8:25:27 AM PDT by Tunehead54 ("I think there has been an exaggeration," Re: Terror Threat: See Beslan for reference. :-()
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