Did 60 Mintes and Dan Rather Break The Law?

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[right wing]

I like Thane_Banquo's points he made on another thread:

"You can create the th superscript, but how do you explain the use of 13 point line spacing, the exact line breaks as a reproduction in Microsoft Word, the superscript and non-superscript th appearing exactly as it would if autoformatted by Microsoft Word, the incongruence of the signatures, the fact that most typewriters could produce a th only in the same font as the original text (not a smaller one as in the documents), the fishy PO Box number, the fishy letterhead, etc, etc?

There are so many things wrong with this document that it is absolutely a forgery."

[Darksheare]

Welcome to FR

[saveliberty]

We know and they know, but they will get away with it anyway.

[donnab]

another overlooked but easy point...the use of 04 in the date
if you look at other documents ...it does not use the "0"
the date would have been written as 4 May 1972, for instance. the use of the "0" wasnt until much later. My brother looked up his reports and none have the "0" in use.

[right wing]

Very good point!

[John_7Diamonds]

Not sure if they could be convicted of that. The memo's were made of whole cloth. In other words rather than forging formal, routine documents they just made stuff up. If they had taken a federal form and forged it then that is a crime. These documents are not on letter head and I don't think that they are imitated any "formal document"

I am no lawyer.

John

[John_7Diamonds]

Right on, amen brother.

John

[longtermmemmory]

why does it have to be word?
any word processor whould do the same trick.

[capitan_refugio]

Falsifying government documents?
Perpetrating a fraud?
Aiding and abetting?

[Callirhoe]

The point is that typing it up in MS Word was what matched at least one of the documents in an overlay (see other threads), not that other word processors wouldn't have essentially the same features.

[Happy2BMe]

$10,500 IF YOU CAN PROVE RATHER'S DOCS WERE REAL

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BUT YOU CAN'T - CBS U-R-RATHER-BUSTED!!

[tndarlin]

But can they prove that the TANG had that particular typewriter at the time.

[saveliberty]

Or disprove it.

Hodges has backed away saying that he was told that these were handwritten notes. Once he read them, he said that they appeared to be forgeries.