[conservatism_IS_compassion]

3. The White House used the same office equipment that the Texas Air National Guard office used.

? How so?

If you think about it, the copy of a copy of a copy nature of the fraudlent "memo" is one of the strongest indictments of it. First because that is a natural way to obscure evidence of fraud, and secondly because if the writer really was afraid of his retired former superior, the writer would have held the original close and made few if any copies.

But of course the chain of custody is a rotten apple, too - the widow and surviving son of the "author" of this "memo" wouldn't have known to even look for it, and don't know how anyone else would have found it. And if indeed copies of copies of copies have been floating around, exactly why does one of them show up only now, after Bush has been in three previous high-profile political campaigns?

Of course the fact that the "memo" is trivial to produce with Microsoft Word and would have been tedious to produce on any 1972 typewriter is the strongest evidence aside from the fact that hardly any typewriter would give you curved quotation marks - and that Times New Roman wasn't available on typewriters.

[libstripper]

The multiple generation copy would do a great job of retaining a readable facsimile of a pasted and pohotocopied signature while changing it just enough to make it look like it wasn't a direct copy of one of the Lt. colonel's other signatures from genuine documents. Thus, the perpetrator of this forgery probably pasted the copies of the Lt. colonel's signatures, taken from copies of genuine original documents, to the master forgeries. Then the perp ran enoung generations to alter the signatures' appearances enough so it would be difficult to prove they were taken from other documents. From there it was easy to send it on to Rather, especially because he was propbably in on the scam in th first place..

[Political Junkie Too]

? How so?

The "how so" is the claim that the superscript also appeared on documents from the White House at the time. That would imply that the White House and the Texas Air National Guard were using the same new technology. One might presume that the White House would have the latest and greatest, but would the Texas Air National Guard office also have it?

-PJ