I heard a guest on FNC over the weekend who made the comment that it didn't matter whether the memos were forged or not; the substance was correct. IIRC, he was stationed in the TX NG during the period. I do not remember his name unfortunately. I thought then that he was the best candidate that I'd seen or heard for the forgeries themselves.
Ms. West said Ms. James similarly "raised no objections."
So let me get this straight...now it's up to the "experts" to implore CBS to HOLD a story? Are these people journalistic editors, or are they experts in document forgeries? Since they did not "implore" CBS to not run the story they (CBS) are innocent?
They asked for supporting authentication of the documents, and were told they had doubtful authenticity, and ran with the story anyway.
What kind of nonsense is that? CBS deserves anythign coming at them for this.
It's obvious that the fraud came out of Texas, but it was an orchestrated effort with multiple players, who were desperate to substantiate old allegations that were never backed up by any evidence. My guess is that the guy who heads that 527, Texans for truth and his buddies at MoveOn made the actual documents, using information from multiple sources. I believe that they passed the documents to the Kerry campaign and told them to use them as they saw fit, which was to disperse them to CBS and USA Today. The memos were only the first of a two part hit on Bush that was planned. The second part was to be the October Surprise, the release of another document, which indicates that there was another pilot that was grounded at the same time as Bush, for using cocaine, and that Bush was guilty by association, but his records were scrubbed. (I learned all this on DU)