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"A detailed comparison by The Washington Post of memos obtained by CBS News with authenticated documents on Bush's National Guard service reveals dozens of inconsistencies, ranging from conflicting military terminology to different word-processing techniques.

The analysis shows that half a dozen Killian memos released earlier by the military were written with a standard typewriter using different formatting techniques from those characteristic of computer-generated documents. CBS's Killian memos bear numerous signs that are more consistent with modern-day word-processing programs, particularly Microsoft Word. "


24 posted on 09/13/2004 7:48:34 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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They even have a rebuttal of Glennon, the typewriter repairman.

"In its broadcast last night, CBS News produced a new expert, Bill Glennon, an information technology consultant. He said that IBM electric typewriters in use in 1972 could produce superscripts and proportional spacing similar to those used in the disputed documents.

Any argument to the contrary is "an out-and-out lie," Glennon said in a telephone interview. But Glennon said he is not a document expert, could not vouch for the memos' authenticity and only examined them online because CBS did not give him copies when asked to visit the network's offices.

Thomas Phinney, program manager for fonts for the Adobe company in Seattle, which helped to develop the modern Times New Roman font, disputed Glennon's statement to CBS. He said "fairly extensive testing" had convinced him that the fonts and formatting used in the CBS documents could not have been produced by the most sophisticated IBM typewriters in use in 1972, including the Selectric and the Executive. He said the two systems used fonts of different widths. "


31 posted on 09/13/2004 7:50:52 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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The bigger longterm story is not that these particular documents can so easily be exposed as forgeries, but that computer technology today makes possible the production of exact and nigh-undetectable forgeries --- easily -- so that any document alone is suspect. (Allowing that to be so only as to pre-laser and ink jet duplicates -- those older originals are still hard -- ink chemistry, paper composition, key or pen impressions will ever be difficult for forgers to exactingly dupe). Chain of custody, open sourcing, consistency with other evidence and reliable testimony are the ONLY ways *today* to validate information.
224 posted on 09/14/2004 3:23:20 AM PDT by bvw
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