Posted on 09/14/2004 2:18:24 PM PDT by ambrose
Former secretary says she didn't type memos 04:10 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 14, 2004
By PETE SLOVER / The Dallas Morning News
HOUSTON – The former secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel who supposedly authored memos critical of President Bush’s Guard service said Tuesday that the documents are fake, but that they reflect real documents that once existed.
Marian Carr Knox, who worked from 1956 to 1979 at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, said she prided herself on meticulous typing, and the memos first disclosed by CBS News last week were not her work.
“These are not real,” she told The Dallas Morning News after examining copies of the disputed memos for the first time. “They’re not what I typed, and I would have typed them for him.”
Mrs. Knox, 86, who spoke with precise recollection about dates, people and events, said she is not a supporter of Mr. Bush, who she deemed “unfit for office” and “selected, not elected.”
“I remember very vividly when Bush was there and all the yak-yak that was going on about it,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
I wonder what she really said. Maybe she'll be on TV/radio soon and we'll know how credible she is (can you imagine the calls she's probably getting). It should be possible to validate her "precise recollection" if she gets talking. Too many inconsistencies here.
You wrote:
"Be careful. She just might type some up. She's already outed herself as the one person who could do it. "
Umm, yeah.
Let's see the 'originals' appear and we can check--
literally--to see the age of the paper, whose fingerprints
are on them, etc.
They don't care about the issues that they raise either. They only want to fill the air waves with a deafening amount of nonsense, so drown out the questions about Kerry's Vietnam service and like someone else mentioned, the 9/11 memorials.
Ummm, not really... for that to be the case, she would have had to have said that she in fact typed memos similar to the CBS ones. She just told the DMN reporter that she had not done so. Very strange.
Dan Rather suggested this. He said it doesn't matter whether the docs are real, because the focus should be on the content which he knew to be real. Which implies he knew this story that the docs are fake but reflect allegedly former real docs. How pathetic.
hmmmmm, good point. You just sparked a thought in my diabolical mind.
Since Killian has been long deceased, there is only one person alive who would have known the content of those "documents that are no longer in existence", his secretary. So if the forgeries were based on real statements from real docs that are no longer around, then who gave the forgers the "real" information to forge them, if not herself?
And, at the head of the stretch, the new leader is.............Bill Burkett!
Her memory has been colorized - filled in with details that weren't actually there. Sort of like the forged memos.
I don't think he can admit the documents are fake and still claim journalistic privilege in the event of any legal challenge. Thus, he must pretend to the end to believe the incredible.
The rats probably threatened her with her SSI checks......btw who keeps a CYA's file at work...typed ones at THAT!.....
KLIF.com
Greg Knap on KLIF is about to have Slover (who wrote the DMN article) On his radio show.
5:05 pm Central time
It's the same old lie..."The memos are fake but the information is accurate". She must be a CBS fan.
"“I remember very vividly when Bush was there and all the yak-yak that was going on about it,” she said."
It is seared in my memory, seared.
Yeah, that use of "yak-yak" just doesn't fit with an 86yo woman.
It doesn't matter who GWB's opponent would have been, the RATS were already planning to pull this out. It's an attack on GWB's credibility in the only area they see a possible chink.
That may be why the dems turned to Kerry as " war hero" (cough) to be their nominee in the end, to counterpoint this perceived weakness, but mark my words, this attack on Dubya has always been in the works.
Shouldn't that be "Our typewriters were Selectic, not electric"?
Goebbels' Principle of The Big Lie worked for the DemRat Hype/Hate Machine.
plus.....how many CYA's memos did she type for the LTC and who were they about?...
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