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Bush Guard papers 'forged'
Washington Times ^
| Sunday, September 12, 2004
| By Hugh Aynesworth
Posted on 09/11/2004 10:53:23 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com
By Hugh Aynesworth
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published September 12, 2004
DALLAS -- New information casts additional doubts about the authenticity of the memos purportedly written concerning President Bush by a former superior officer in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1970s, as Dan Rather and CBS News doggedly stuck to their guns defending the documents.
"They're forged as hell," said Earl W. Lively, 76, who during the era in question was director of Texas Air National Guard operations in Austin.
Mr. Lively said he had proof that Col. Walter "Buck" Staudt -- who supposedly forced an underling to favorably alter reports on Mr. Bush's activities as a member of the Guard in the early 1970s -- had been honorably discharged nearly 18 months before the date of the memos, purportedly written by Lt. Col. Jerry Killian.
After Mr. Lively's revelation, the Dallas Morning News discovered records amid the newspaper's archives, from when the paper investigated Mr. Bush's Guard career in 1999, that show Mr. Staudt had left the Guard on March 1, 1972.
One of the memos concerning Mr. Staudt's supposed pressure to ensure that Mr. Bush's record was to be "sugar coated" was dated Aug. 18, 1973.
Mr. Killian at the time was Mr. Bush's squadron leader.
"And there's no way that Jerry Killian would have written what they've come up with," added Mr. Lively, now one of the most successful real estate agents in Dallas.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; cbs; cbsnews; forgery; killian; lively; mediaelectioneering; rather; rathergate; staudt; tang
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To: tiki
"I just keep wondering how they could be so stupid" It wasn't stupidity, it was Rather's fanatical hatred for Bush and his obsession to destroy him that caused this fiasco.
I can just picture Mr. Rather, wide-eyed and salivating when he was approached by the "source" and told about the great 'discovery' that would ruin Bush. In his lust and his haste to be the man who would expose President Bush as a liar and a coward, Mr Rather got careless about verifying the authenticy of the memos.
As the old saying goes, "hatred is like acid, it eats through its own container". So the irony of it all is that Dan Rather's passion to see Bush destroyed has backfired and cost him his own reputation and probably his career.
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:20:02 AM PDT
by
TheCrusader
("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II (c 1097 a.d.))
To: JohnHuang2
I know these articles have limited space, but aren't a few salient points missing? What about Matley's claim that he TOLD CBS he couldn't authenticate a signature that wasn't original? What about proof-positive that the 60 Minutes documents COULD NOT have been typed by a nontypist on so complex a machine as the IBM Executive? What about the son's remarks about Killian's shared secretary? What about the document the son produced that SHE typed? What about the paper-size and resultant margin-set? What about the provenance of these PRIVATE documents?
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:20:33 AM PDT
by
Mach9
(.)
To: ArmyBratproud; beyond the sea
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:21:13 AM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: JohnHuang2; AHerald; ArmyBratproud; Mister Baredog; kcvl
Col. Walter "Buck" Staudt --When the FAMOUS post # 47 the other day on the FR thread first proved the forgery, it was posted by "Buckhead".
Hmmmmmmmmm. "Buck" Staudt.
;-)
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:22:31 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
To: planekT
You wrote:
"We believe that the witness we interviewed said before he
found out he'd been duped."
Yes that's it.
Just a little too much like John Kewwy's style.
"I voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it."
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:28:33 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: PhilDragoo
Beautiful.............
November 3rd Teraaaaaaaayza will begin packing John-Jaquestrap Effin Shove It S.O.B Teresa Mamma T Winthrop Simoes-Ferreira Al Qerry-Heinz III's Gucci bags for his exit from her life.
He's past tense........... but keep sending all you can to the Swifties and keep trying to influence "on the fence" voters.
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:30:45 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
To: beyond the sea
To: PhilDragoo
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:45:13 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
To: JohnHuang2
70
posted on
09/12/2004 1:38:07 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(The Log Cabin Republicans AREN'T.)
To: Spanaway Lori
Rather needs an immediate career change.(Unemployment Compensation)(Defamation of Character suit)(Conspiracy) I hope he winds up like peter arnett with nothng.
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posted on
09/12/2004 5:51:47 AM PDT
by
No Surrender No Retreat
(These Colors Never Run( 7.62) "See Ya"ll At The VA Clinic" "Xin Loi My Boy")
To: woodb01
Bump! Thanks for all the leg work!
To: AHerald
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posted on
09/12/2004 8:37:24 AM PDT
by
Stultis
To: JohnHuang2
Fox News just did a report by Megan someone and did NOT nail down that this is a forgery...they are reporting it as a "he said. she said" thing. FOX EVEN DISGUSTS ME.
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posted on
09/12/2004 8:41:13 AM PDT
by
Claire Voyant
((visualize whirled peas))
To: woodb01
BOYCOTT THE ADVERTISERS and let them KNOW WHY!!
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posted on
09/12/2004 8:43:22 AM PDT
by
Claire Voyant
((visualize whirled peas))
To: Stultis
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posted on
09/12/2004 11:28:42 AM PDT
by
AHerald
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