It is horrific to consider their MO.
And equally horrific to consider the manner in which they are CYA'ing their actions. They really do think we are stupid and will eventually go away.
Not this time. And nevermore. If they will not protect the importance of honesty, genuine investigative work, a balanced story and professional journalism methods, THEN WE WILL!
It sounds like a "deny, deny, deny thing which leads us back to Clinton.
I think he is going to get challenged with a subpeona...not sure by whom but I don't think this is over.
My big thing with the memos is the last digit of the dates (year) on the memo to file that I printed out wind up in the same column if I overlay them even though they were written 15 months apart...indicating the possibility of someone using right margin flush. It also indicates the same person probably typed them. The other thing that caught my eye was the comma after transferred in the May 19 1972 memo as he broke his style and the comma is distorted as if someone had overwritten a period. The b of the next word is also VERY different from other "b"s in the memo.
Regardless, Rather has blatantly challenged everyone which will probably lead to an order to "produce the originals and your source". As long as he's using them as Military Documents, I believe they will be scrutinized as such.
But the real issue becomes (And Kerry is being very stupid here) : Did everyone in the National Guard "make a phone call"? Their service wasn't service at all? It was a useless part of our government? And going to Canada was a higher calling? Kerry doesn't think. If I were him, I'd bypass that scheduled National Guard Convention. He's gonna get creamed and like the Swift Boat Guys, they will make their point with dignity and "right". Kerry just keeps on putting spit on the spitballs. I owned a selectric in the early 80's. An old employee of mine had an even older one and I think you had to put in a piece of white tape to cover an error. What a pain. Rather can make the challenge without reproducing the originals.