[SkyPilot]

Let me repeat my post from earlier on this:

CBS has already released a statement that the documents were so xeroxed and fixed were "difficult" to examine. This is incredible.

What they are trying to cover up is that the experts are now looking at pixel area and pattern.

That is a photo from the MSNBC website.

CBS knows that if the experts can determine the forgery, they will try to hide behind the fact that the documents were "copied and faxed too many times."

The forgers copied them 20 times to make them look old. I can make my last month electric bill look old by putting it through the copier 4 times.

CBS will try to hide behind the criminality of their own forgery.

[Chummy]

Absent the original documents it would be impossible to say with any certainty that they were typed, not simply printed. A typewriter would, of course, leave an impression in the paper, unlike a printer.

As to the copying, I've posted previously, give me 15 minutes with some of my readily available graphics software and I'll produce a document that looks as old as your request, and would include a standard type font, not this obviously bogus nonsense See BS is pawning off on the American public.

[igoramus987]

from Transcript of Rather on CBS link

DOCUMENT AND HANDWRITING EXAMINER MARCEL MATLEY ANALYZED THE DOCUMENTS FOR CBS NEWS.

HE SAYS HE BELIEVES THEY ARE REAL...BUT IS CONCERNED ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT IS BEING EXAMINED BY SOME OF THE PEOPLE QUESTIONING THE DOCUMENTS....BECAUSE DETIORATION OCCURS EACH TIME A DOCUMENT IS REPRODUCED.....AND THE DOCUMENTS BEING ANALYZED OUTSIDE OF CBS HAVEBEEN PHOTOCOPIED, FAXED, SCANNED AND DOWNLOADED.... AND ARE FAR REMOVED FROM THE DOCUMENTS CBS STARTED WITH WHICH WERE ALSO PHOTOCOPIES.

Aren't we all only looking at the pdf documents that CBS put on their website.

Now...
If Mately told CBS that their memos are "not reliable representations of the memos" because they are not the original and hence can't be authenticated, why did they unprofessionally go ahead with the Memo piece without getting a copy of the originals to authenticate.

[cyncooper]

What they are trying to cover up

Too bad for CBS that looking at the content alone debunks the documents, never mind the technology debate (thought it's important to establish).

I think it looks worse that they overlooked the content like Staudt having retired in 1972 and the simple amount of research it would have taken to reveal that orders weren't issued in the format they presented.

I'm afraid CBS was complicit and nothing will ever explain away what they have done here.

[TN4Liberty]

The forgers copied them 20 times to make them look old. I can make my last month electric bill look old by putting it through the copier 4 times.

This raises a logic question I haven't seen addressed. If the Lt Col was writing memos to his own file, only for his use, only to "CYA," why were there ANY photocopies made, let alone multiple generations of photocopies? Not proof of anything, but a question a good investigator would ask before saying the documents were legit.

[torchthemummy]

"The forgers copied them 20 times to make them look old. I can make my last month electric bill look old by putting it through the copier 4 times."

As was pointed out, the black or redacted mark over the address is still readable. This would only be possible on an original copy because any subsequent copy would print out pitch black.