cbs will try to use the old lady to show even though the documents were fake, the facts were correct....
this is what nro/kerryspot found out about the old lady's story before cbs got ahold of her:
from about half-way down on nro/kerryspot
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp
UH, SOMETHING'S FUNNY ABOUT THIS 'SWEET OLD LADY' [09/15 08:50 AM]
The Kerry Spot, as a rule, doesn't like criticizing 86-year-old former Air National Guard secretaries. But there is something very odd about the current statements of Marian Carr Knox, former secretary to Lt. Col. Jerry Killian.
As the Houston Chronicle noted:
Knox said she decided to report her recollection of the time period to the media after hearing White House press officials say the information in the memos was false.
Did anyone in the White House say this? I thought they were standing with their rote response, "The President was honorably discharged... The President was honorably discharged..."
Further down, we read:
Last week, Knox said she had no firsthand knowledge of Bush's time with the Texas Air National Guard, although she did recall a culture of special treatment for the sons of prominent people, such as Bush and others.
But she told The New York Times: "We did discuss Bush's conduct and it was a problem Killian was concerned about," Mrs. Knox said. "I think he was writing the memos so there would be some record that he was aware of what was going on and what he had done."
One week she's saying she had no firsthand knowledge of Bush's service, the next she's saying she discussed it with Killian.
Knox also claims in the Houston Chronicle Killian "kept copies to protect himself," contradicting the widow and the son. She says Killian didn't type, that she typed for him - but says she never typed a memo like this. So how did a memo "like this, in this vein, reflecting these opinions," etc. get created? Her contention that the memos reflected Killian's opinion seems more like an assertion or wishful thinking than anything supported by the rest of the facts. Remember, in the verified documents, Killian says nice things about Bush.
I am sure Knox is a very nice 86-year-old woman. But her story seems, at this point, to be unreliable.
Ok so Killian makes an offhand remark, overheard by Ms Carr, that special treatment brats are a pain in the neck. Someone manages to acquire some documents that concern some other special treatment brats, and since they believe that Bush was probably an SPB himself, then the essence of reality will be maintained if they adjust the documents to include Bush's name. Only, they are having trouble making the changes and inclusions of Bush id info look identical to the originals, so they re-do the entire documents with a work processor and after several runs throught a copier the new ones resemble the original documents, at least, to the dummies eye. I'm just getting it! These people believe they have simply co-produced documents, the contents of which should exist, but do not.
That's what Rather is going on about. unbefrickinleavable.