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.
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1O1!!!
I like it! The ones! LOL!
Translation: We're too stupid to produce convincing forgeries, but these say what we would say if we could.
Forgeries, but genuine forgeries? Not.
> ... they reflect real documents that once existed.
This cannot be literally true, due to the time/place/date
problems, defective terminology/abbreviations/regs, etc.
> ... said she is not a supporter of Mr. Bush, ...
They needed to hire her BEFORE the creative fiction began.
Anyhow, this means that hunt'n'peck Killian would have
had to type the memos himself on that mythical IBM
Selectric Composer with top-secret Pseudo-Kerning option.
It will be fun to see how Rather spins this mixed bag
of news.
Can somebody Freepmail me this article?????? I can't seem to register!
86 years old and remembers details that no longer exist.
They are using this scam as a springboard to further attack Bush's service in the Guard. "Sure the documents are fakes, but what about the issues they raise?"
How bleeping convenient.
This "poor" partisan woman has to fess up to the techncially obvious, but then gives CBS some slim threads to hang on to.
At least the DMN had the decency to note the partisanship:
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.”
Of course, with bloggers looking over their shoulders, do they have a choice? (nyuk, nyuk).
But despite what she says, there remains for CBS an insurmountable challenge: PROVE IT.
She said that the culture of the time was that men didn’t type office-related documents, and she expressed doubt that Lt. Col. Killian would have typed the memos. She said she would typically type his memos from his handwritten notes, which she would then destroy.
Mrs. Knox, who left the Guard before Lt. Col. Killian died, said she was not sure of the disposition of his personal files when he died while still serving at Ellington. But, she said, it would have been logical that a master sergeant who worked in the squadron headquarters would have destroyed any such nonofficial documents after Lt. Col. Killian’s death.
That man, reached Tuesday, declined to comment. “I don’t know anything about the matter,” he said.
She also said the memos may have been constructed from memory by someone who had seen Lt. Col. Killian’s private file but were not transcriptions because the language and terminology did not match what he would have used.
For instance, she said, the use of the words “billets” and a reference to the “administrative officer” of Mr. Bush’s squadron reflect Army terminology rather than the Air National Guard. Some news reports attribute the CBS reports to a former Army National Guard officer who has a longstanding dispute with the Guard and has previously maintained that the president’s record was sanitized.
Mrs. Knox also cited stylistic differences in the form of the notes, such as the signature on the right side of the document, rather than the left, where she would have put it.
This woman sounds confused, to me.
No, it was designed to be a diversion from the third anniversary of 9/11, which the Democrats knew would be a political bonanza for President Bush and futher bury Kerry. Dan Rather cut corners and sped up this story so it would air right before September 11. They thought Bush would be spending the weekend defending himself; instead, it was Dan Rather spending the weekend defending himself!!!
I think someone should ask her if anyone from the DNC or CBS contacted her in the past regarding her recollection of these matters. This could be the "source" upon which the forged documents idea came about. It all hangs on a crazy granny. Making us pyjama types look absolutely mainstream in comparison.
IMHO, Lt. Col. Killian's family should get an attorney and sue the heck out of CBS......
Obviously some kind of misdirection. Its got me pretty spooked actually. I don't think it has anything to do with taking the focus off of Kerry's Senate record. Still have to believe it is all Hitlery related.
Right. It's the 3rd quarter, they're down by 11, and they're playing PREVENT DEFENSE.
So explain to me where she's been all these years, and why the story only quotes her in generalities about Bush and the "actual memos"? How come there are no direct quotes of her saying Bush's record was sugar coated, pressure from the top, etc.? Very strange article.
Great point about the lack of quotes about whether they existed at the time.
Get an affidavit (of course a Dem partisan signing an affidavit means nothing).
This reflects exactly the staff gossip floated in the Prowler about CBS reporters hearing rumors of these docs for years, then being surprised when they magically appeared--made to order evidence. Unfortunately for Dan the Newsman, simulations of purported documents do not cut it. Reminds me of those cheezy re-enactments on "Unsolved Mysteries."
This reflects exactly the staff gossip floated in the Prowler about CBS reporters hearing rumors of these docs for years, then being surprised when they magically appeared--made to order evidence. Unfortunately for Dan the Newsman, simulations of purported documents do not cut it. Reminds me of those cheezy re-enactments on "Unsolved Mysteries."
I haven't read it. Try running the title through Google News, you should get unfettered access that way.
I haven't read it. Try running the title through Google News, you should get unfettered access that way.
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