Posted on 09/10/2004 9:41:43 PM PDT by kattracks
A handwriting expert says the two signatures on purported Texas National Guard memos aired by CBS News this week are not those of President Bush's squadron commander, as asserted by "60 Minutes."
Until now, press scrutiny of the memos supposedly written by the late Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian focused on the finding that the documents were, in the opinion of experts, produced by computers not yet in use in the early 1970s.
Eugene P. Hussey, a certified forensic document examiner in Washington state, said yesterday there is another flaw in the CBS memos. Mr. Hussey studied the known signatures of Col. Killian on Air Force documents, and two signatures on documents dated 1972 and 1973 that aired on "60 Minutes" Wednesday night.
"It is my limited opinion that Killian did not sign those documents," Mr. Hussey told The Washington Times. He said he uses the phrase "limited opinion" because he does not have the original documents. He, like other experts interviewed by the press, relied on copies of originals first obtained by CBS. The White House then distributed copies of the memos in what is said was the interest of full disclosure.
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The Times provided Mr. Hussey with copies of the CBS documents, which he dubbed Q-1-3, and records known to have been signed by Col. Killian, (K-1-3).
"It is my opinion based on the examination of the Q-1 through Q-3 and K-1 through K-3, that Jerry B. Killian probably did not sign his name to Q-1 and his initial to Q-3," Mr. Hussey said in a signed letter to The Times. "As to the authenticity of the CBS documents, that is Q-1 through Q-3, [they] appear to be product of a computer, rather than a typewriter."
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She's taking on water Dan. Better start the bildge pump.
Won't the White House and/or the DOD HAVE to eventually get involved in this if it is proven that Killian's signature was forged?
Im worried about the DU crowd..with the automatic weapons ban being lifted some of them are in danger of going postal...Im sure Dr Laura could help them work through their feelings if they will just let her
The White House handled this brilliantly. They had the memos CBS sent them for 24 hours before the show aired and I'm sure had experts vet them closely. They determined they were forgeries and to twist the knife into CBS further passed the forgeries that CBS out to all the other media outlets for them to scrutinize. Brilliant!
Who wants to bet this is going to right back to kerry??? Boy, oh boy danny boy, ain't it the sh!ts to be the fall guy????
Hell no.
Let the surviving Killians sue CBS!
The DU crowd is too lazy, stoned and drunk to get off the couch.
Nada - just let it roll
Just like Kerry served his country well - and let the swifts take care of that.
Dan Rather's swift boat is sinking fast...
We're talking FRAUD now, not merely bad journalism. CBS acted in full duplicity with the supplier of the documents to attempt to overthrow a sitting, wartime president.
If one follows the trail, the perpetrator(s) of this coup attempt cannot escape the new media's scrutiny. Focus should now be on WHO supplied the documents to CBS.
Forging a signature on a military document is a felony.
I suspect the FBI will be interested in somebody at CBS.
No one will ever get a "beyond a reasonable doubt" on handwriting, because no one has an original, IIRC.
I notice they are confused,they think the Docs were released by the WH to CBS....not that they were released by the WH after they got them from CBS
Pokkata - wheep - pokkata wheep - pokkata wheep
Audios Dan and John
The DU crowd is in total denial.
They are claiming Rather literally destroyed all the desperate attempts by Republicans to show the documents are forgeries.
Have you checked out their boards?
It's astounding how deceived these people are.
Good. This goes far beyond dirty politics.
Does this mean Kerry is gonna have ANOTHER long telephone conversation with Clinton??
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