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He was contacted by CBS. He told CBS that the family didn't have any of these personal papers and they (the family) did not provide any personal memos to CBS.

Also, said that when he spoke with CBS representative Mary Maip (sp?, Mape?, Maipe?), he told her that two other officers flew with then Lt. Bush could talk about it: a Lt. Rome (sp?) or Lt. Udell.

The CBS representative replied to Mr. Killian, "Yeah, we have talked to Rome, but he's pretty pro-Bush".

As we know, CBS was hunting for the documents. Maybe Ms. Maip (sp?) just got sick of turning up the documents so she just created them herself, printed it out, ran it through a copy machine 15 times (for "noise") and, VIOLA!, there are the documents.

My personal inference was that she already had the documents & was poking around without trying to let on that she already knew (given how obviously fraudulent they were) the documents were forged.

She was told there were no files from which these documents ever could have come from & CBS specifically refused to include any conflicting testimony in their 60 Minutes hit piece

My personal opinion is that outright fabrication goes on ALL THE TIME in our media, and it is only when they take on someone with big guns (i.e. GM, or GOP in this poorly-run forgery case) that they have even a chance of getting called on it.

If they were serious about these documents, all they had to do was analyze the paper. If the documents are originals, or even copies from back them, it can be dated by the paper since paper manufacturing/processing has changed drastically since then. You can also investigate even further if these are copies. What types of copiers were standard in the military back then. Shoot, I can remember the copies in elementary school that had purplish ink that we used to smell. ;) Were there black ink copiers back then?