Posted on 09/10/2004 5:47:19 PM PDT by Rome2000
WOW! Great work!
Anyone care to take a guess at what this did to Shrillary's chances in '08?
Was he recommended to CBS by the DNC?
Did they find him in the yellow pages?.
Part of the problem in assessing suicide is that about 15% of all suicides have no threats or other indications of suicidal intent. The fact that this "note" was quickly described as a "suicide note," no doubt, contributed to the quick assumption by the public and others as to the fact of the suicide.
Did not ever get a degree?
This "expert" is not a trained or experienced investigator. No law enforcement experience or training...How much "criminal investigation" training has she had ? Apparently NONE... Yeah she's an " expert for hire". That means she is from "out of town".
The FBI has specialists in that field.
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Who are Dan Rather's experts?
Matley - Clinton connected.
Moore - Clinton connected.
Weird.
DOCUMENT AND HANDWRITING EXAMINER MARCEL MATLEY DID THIS INTERVIEW WITH US PRIOR TO THE 60 MINUTES BROADCAST.
HE LOOKED AT THE DOCUMENTS AND THE SIGNATURES OF COLONEL JERRY KILLIAN.... COMPARING KNOWN DOCUMENTS WITH THE COLONEL'S SIGNATURE ON THE NEWSLY DISCOVERED ONES.
Matley: "WE LOOK BASICALLY AT WHAT'S CALLED SIGNIFICANT OR INSIGNIFICANT FEATURES TO DETERMINE WHETHER IT'S THE SAME PERSON OR NOT. I HAVE NO PROBLEM IDENTIFYING THEM.
I WOULD SAY BASED ON OUR AVAILABLE HANDWRITING EVIDENCE, YES. THIS IS THE SAME PERSON."
Rather: MATLEY FINDS THE SIGNAT'URES TO BE SOME OF THE MOST COMPELLING EVIDENCE...WE TALKED TO HIM AGAIN TODAY BY SATELLITE.
Matley "SINCE IT IS REPRESENTED THAT SOME OF THEM ARE DEFINITELY HIS... THEN WE CAN CONCLUDE THEY ARE HIS SIGNATURES."
Rather: "ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT QUESTIONS COME ABOUT THESE. WE'RE NOT, BUT I WAS WONDERING IF YOU'RE SURPRISED."
Matley: "I KNEW GOING IN THAT THIS WAS DYNAMITE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER AND I KNEW THAT POTENTIALLY IT WAS FAR MORE POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO ME PROFESSIONALLY THAN BENEFIT ME. AND I KNEW THAT. BUT WE SEEK THE TRUTH. THAT'S WHAT WE DO. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PUT YOURSELF OUT. TO SEEK THE TRUTH AND TAKE WHAT COMES FROM IT."
Yes, 'deteriorated copy' is a term that comes in handy when this 'handwriting specialist' is questioned. You would think that since there are zero original documents to look at Rather would have wanted at least 2 or 3 experts before he came out calling Pres.Bush a liar.
The fact this is the one that verified Vince Foster's suicide note is too rich. Priceless really.
This guy seems to have a pretty thin resume, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is an expert at handwriting analysis. He claims no expertise with respect to determining authenticity of typed documents. As was pointed out on another thread, that is the gut issue here and he has no more expertise than I do. The best that he can do to support Honest Dan's case is to attest to the authenticity of the signatures. So what? The signatures easily could have been photocopied from the genuine memos that the White House released and cut and pasted onto the forged memos before they were recopied umpteen times to produce the "degraded" copies that Matley reviewed.
In a part of the Rather interview with Mately tonight there was one line that stopped me cold--and it hasn't been talked about or noticed.
Mately said something about how he knew he'd be under scrutiny and how the opinion might affect his career...BUT then he said, "WE HAD TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH."
Who is "WE" Experts are supposed to be independent with no ax to grind. It sounded to me that this was a cause dear to Mr. Mately's heart.
To find out he's been a Democrat shill before just puts him in the same class as Private Investigator Anthony Pellicano who testified as an 'independent investigator' that the Clinton/Flowers tapes had been dubbed. It wasn't until years later that everyone learned he was a Democratic operative.
Yeah, this guy apparently needs to find out the "Truth" about a lot of things, like the Vince Foster note that also magically appeared one day.
I have made mistakes from ignorance, inexperience and overwork.
I did not knowingly violate any law or standard of conduct.
No one in the White House, to my knowledge, violated any law or standard of conduct ---
[Here the sentence was truncated. Left out was the rest of the sentence - "including any action in the travel office."]
I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport.
Dan Rather/Matley and CBS's Fahmy Malak?
Exactly!>/B>. You make a great point. This Matley slug is a one trick (and one party) pony!
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