Sounds like the person who obtained the documents is being accused of stealing them. Read it again.
Faked doc. STOP RIGHT THERE! Hand over your press cards now. The door slamming you in the butt is also "essentially true".
Need to make sure the experts cited in here get a copy of this quickly. At least two of them could take legal action against CBS for telling affiliates that they "misrepresented their conversations with CBS".
"I think there is no sense in forming an opinion when there is no evidence
to form it on.
If you build a person without any bones in him he may look fair enough to the eye,
but he will be limber and cannot stand up; and I consider that evidence is the bones of an opinion."
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Mark Twain
Did he really say this?
I thought he said that all these signatures were from the same person.
That's a different statement.
They would not have done the story without the documents. The verbal accusations were already available.
So, now it's OK to use forged, falsified documents in a story if they back up the people you have lined up to tell the lies you want to tell.
Others are on record contradicting their witnesses, but they don't get a mention. And the notion that the split is 50-50 among experts concerning the documents is ludicrous. It's very lopsided in favor of them being fake. The longer CBS tries to maintain their position, the more credibility they lose.
We know by now what CBS News considers a "credible source".
If they consider these obviously forged memos to be credible sources, why should we have any more faith in their other sources?
To a person, everyone believes Rather is without credibility. Even the liberals and Kerry supporters are shaking their heads in disbelief that CBS does not fall on its sword in the face of such obvious fraud.
CBS has no idea about the degree of damage it has inflicted on itself, and I suspect it will grow in intensity as the denial/stonewalling continues. This will be water cooler/lobby talk for a long time. It really is making people question everything about 60 Minutes and CBS News.
"Four independent individuals with expertise in the authentication of documents were consulted prior to the broadcast of the story regarding the documents 60 MINUTES Wednesday obtained: document examiners Marcel B. Matley, James J. Pierce, Emily Will and Linda James."
We already know that *both* Emily Will and Linda James are *off* the CBS bandwagon, having claimed they warned CBS that the documents had 'problems'. Marcel Matley has already said that he only verified the *signatures*.
That leaves one expert left.
Who is James J. Pierce?
Is he the man who is classified here as:
http://www.signascan.com/testimonials.htm
"Plaintiff's expert Pierce, a handwriting analyst, testified that plaintiff signed all of her physical therapy treatment logs on different occasions. He did not believe that the physical therapy signatures were fraudulent."
HANDWRITING ANALYST! And NOT A CONVINCING ONE! ...
"The jury was strongly persuaded by defendant's handwriting expert, John Cerlanek, and did not believe that plaintiff's handwriting expert refuted any of his testimony. "
Is this the man CBS picked?
What could a handwriting analyst tell us FROM COPIES?!?
CBS claims that not only didnt they give the experts copies,
they didnt have them either. If so, we now have
ZERO documentation experts to refute the 'MS Word' forgery case and typographic flaws in the documents. ZERO.
CASE CLOSED.
See BS says: See, these documents are proof, and not forged. How do we know they aren't forged, because we have interviewed other people who corroborate what the docuements say. That proves they are legitimate.
See BS says: What? You say that those who attest to the veracity of the content are proven liars and discredited or Bush-haters (which is true of every one that they have used to attest to the veracity of the forged memos)?
See BS says: But we have these memos which prove that what they say is true.
Infinite loop of leftist loony reasoning.
See BS has created this fraudulent loop and will die. They refuse to admit to the forgery because it runs so contrary to their worldview.
Guess CBS thought this election reform thing left them with all the cards.
I KNEW this was not true!
See this article, in particular, this part:
Matley has told CNN, The Washington Post and other media organizations that his work was limited to verifying that the signatures on the memos came from the same source. He did not, he says, claim that the documents themselves were authentic.
Matley says the signatures were MADE BY THE SAME PERSON.
He does NOT say that person was Killian.
Col KIllian's son, who served with him, just said on Hannity and Colmes that Ms Knox was a pool typist who would in no way have been privy to such information.
There are so many holes in this whole thing it's silly...and that would be the unanimous opinion across the land if it were not CBS' Party involved in the conspiracy.
Forgery doesn't matter when you have useful idiots who are willing to perjure themselves.
So, CBS is still asserting that the documents may be authentic, and have been "certified" to be authentic by named experts. Their affiliates are getting heat. A Houston radio station owner has pulled CBS news off his programming, and says he will rescind his contract with CBS if they don't fire Dan Rather by Monday, and come clean with the charade.
Oh my...... I don't have any facts to back it up, but this is how I feel. Good Grief! Is this the "evidence?" How she feels? God help us all.
It's low even for the Rats to use a man who's passed away and who cannot debunk their "feelings." DAN RATS, go straight to......(fill in the blanks that rhymes with) well......
"Katz believes the documents were written on a typewriter and not a computer. (attachment 3)"
Uhh. Maybe I'm missing something. If they are fake, how can they be accurate?