Couldn't be happening to a nicer bunch of people now could it!
Posted on 09/10/2004 7:42:49 PM PDT by Ed Zoekuiper
Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt."
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RATHER NEWS [Byron York] The major news in CBS anchorman Dan Rather's defense of the alleged Bush National Guard documents is the revelation that CBS News does not have the original documents purportedly written by Bush's commanding officer Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. Rather reported tonight that the network's document consultant "believes they are real, but is concerned about exactly what is being examined by some of the people now questioning the documents, because deterioration occurs each time a document is reproduced, and the documents being analyzed outside of CBS have been photocopied, faxed, scanned, and downloaded, and are far removed from the documents CBS started with, which were also photocopies."
That last clause is critical. Document experts say it would be relatively easy to determine the authenticity of a typewritten original; a typewriter makes a small indentation into the paper with each strike, and those indentations can be studied in great detail. But a photocopy is another thing. There's no way to analyze the physical aspects of the typewritten words, nor is there a way to analyze the actual signature. In fact, an image of a legitimate signature could have been placed onto a computer-generated document and then printed out and photocopied. The news is that CBS based its report on photocopies, making it difficult to determine whether or not the documents are in fact authentic.
No, that can't be because Rather spent all that time this evening explaining how typewriters in 1972 could do superscript and blah blah blah..
He can't come back now and say it was hand written.
Not to mention Killian's son reported in the hanniryt radio show that that CBS refused to follow up on suggestions that he had made to them for knowledgeable people to interview. The women doing the leg work for Rather actually told him one of the people he had suggested was pro-Bush and essentiually useless (meaning he could not be used in the report).
HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS: Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt."
Hodges also said he did not see the documents in the 70's and he cannot authenticate the documents or the contents. His personal belief is that the documents have been "computer generated" and are a "fraud."
He deserves a ton of mail,
I am just sending him the above.
"Actually, they told him they WERE handwritten."
That might explain the handwriting expert IF Rather is setting us up. But why type a document to look like the real thing if the original is handwritten? This makes no sense.
And why then add a forged signature to the memos? No, there were no handwritten memos.
Who is left with CBS?
Doesn't somebody have to take the fall?? Dan is 72, justice would demand that he be forced out in disgrace.
This is getting beautiful!!!
The problem is they told the General they were handwritten not typed.
How old would Hodges be? If he retired in 1971 at say age 55, he would be 88.
Couldn't be happening to a nicer bunch of people now could it!
Hodges also said he did not see the documents in the 70's and he cannot authenticate the documents or the contents. His personal belief is that the documents have been "computer generated" and are a "fraud".
Oh dear...What's the frequency NOW?
Keep up the good work. ABC did a lousy job of coveering it yesterday and I never heard the story on CNN, but tonight I heard the story covered on Headlines News and they actually did a fairly decent job.
Wae have to keep this story alive, because the press is trying to bury it.
Did your post text use the color of crap in this case on purpose? LOL
Mold the story? They alreqady had it written and were looking for quotes to fill in the blanks where required.
I see that a lot, what is it in reference to?
I cannot keep other either -- everytime I turn around it is something new! :)
I think ABC has decided to try and keep a little credibility for itself and for the MSM and not go down with the CBS ship.
Plus, they may have realized it's over for Kerry and have decided to bail.
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