Posted on 09/12/2004 8:37:49 PM PDT by charleston1
On September 11, 2004, I posted a thread here in the P.M. entitled "Two More 'Killian' Documents". It was my first post and it received significant viewing. It has come to my attention thanks to Otto, a commenter at the Beldar Blog, that the story has now been verified by the Washington Monthly.
Links here. http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2004/09/rasupthsupergat_1.html (Search for "Otto")
washingtonmonthly.com
I initially thought that the White House must have given the major news media outlets all six documents but as it turns out, CBS never gave the White House the six documents (if they have all six), just the four that the rest of the News Media has at their websites. So the 64K question is where did the USA Today get them? Were they shopped like some valuable commodity? Did other news outlets pass on them?
The intrigue now begins in earnest and clearly the six files taken as a whole are an insulting hoax to the memory of Jerry B. Killian, an honorable Air Force Colonel who has passed on and can not even defend his name. All in the name of news, er "Rather" in the name of hardball politics.
It seems that the USA Today significantly downgraded the quality of the PDF documents from 484K to about 80K and that is all anyone can now get. In the interest of maximum exposure, I have posted the six documents to my website: Challengerdisaster.info for a limited timeframe which will depend directly on my bandwidth consumption. My website is a work in progress as I am working on a book on the Challenger disaster so please be respectful and understand that my website, like my book, is a work in progress and I have a ways to go. Thanks. If you download any of the videos please do so once only and save the target files on your hard drive in lieu of multiple downloads so that the maximum number of people can download files.
Good work
Sorry, I stopped reading USA Today when that paper ended up becoming with bad journalism, USSR Today!!!!:-(
hmmm a member since 9/11/04.
Actually it goes to washington monthly(gag) although it says usa today.
USA Today is holding on to the other two documents until their graphic designers can come up with a more convincing font and character spacing.
The length of my membership here is not a relevant issue to the facts I have presented.
Thank you for continuing to keep this in the forefront. It should be more readily known that these extra two are like the forger who practices signatures and throws the practice ones into the wastebasket - ready for Hercule Poirot to find.
USA Today should tell us who their source is.
I concur - FR has been overrun of late with DU shills making wild statements - I for one appreciate your investigative efforts to get at the truth
Followed that today. Hell of a first post!
Maybe a simple phone call on Monday morning to the editor?
>>>hmmm a member since 9/11/04.
Not every newbie is a troll, however, most trolls are also newbies...
Welcome to Free Republic.
It has been speculated that the other memos were not passed on because they don't really support the whole premise that CBS was trying to to make, that Bush had not received a review or something. Anyway, they were supposed to have been contradictory in some way. They also bring into question another name, the guy who was supposed to have done the review, Harris, I think was the name (not really sure).
http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/document.htm
Are these what we're talking about?
Maybe so, but there have been an amazing number of folks signing up here in the past several days that have been posting threads seemingly just to generate traffic back to their own blog (man, how I've grown to hate that friggin' word over the past year) sites.
I have the download. He is right about there being 6 documents.
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