Posted on 09/15/2004 5:58:47 PM PDT by wagglebee
HOUSTON (Talon News) -- Despite repeated assertions by CBS news that documents used in a "60 Minutes II" story to question the National Guard service of President George W. Bush are authentic, more testimony continues to emerge which eat away at CBS's claims. Now, the secretary of former Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, the supposed author of the documents, says that Killian never typed memos.
"He didn't need to. He had me," Marion Carr Knox, Killian's former secretary at the Texas Air National Guard said to Internet reporter Matt Drudge.
Knox added, "I did not type these particular memos. I typed memos like these."
"I typed memos that had this information in them, but I did not type these memos," Knox explained. "There are terms in these memos that are not Guard terms but that are Army terms."
Knox indicated that she is not a Bush supporter, but remembers him fondly because he was always pleasant and respectful toward her.
CBS did not interview Cox before airing the 60 Minutes segment.
CBS has virtually isolated itself by holding on to its assertion that the documents are authentic. Even the experts that several days ago seemed to be giving credence to the reports have now moved away from them.
The network refuses to name its source of the documents and admits that it has never seen the originals. It has instead attempted to retaliate on "bloggers" who originally pointed out the many flaws in the fabrications.
When presented by Talon News with copies of the documents for review, President Bush's Air National Guard flight instructor at the time, Col. Maurice Udell, said that there was "no way those documents are real."
"I've only looked at these documents for a few minutes, but I can already count a number of flaws in them," Udell told Talon News.
Udell said the documents simply don't follow basic National Guard protocol.
Meanwhile, criticism of CBS News continues to intensify. An editorial in the New York Post on Tuesday noted that CBS News and Dan Rather are "digging in their heels -- and just may be digging their own journalistic graves."
Former President of NBC News Larry Grossman told the Wall Street Journal that if the documents are proven to be fake, "it will be a terrible, devastating blow."
"People will be fired, the program loses its credibility and Dan Rather ends a distinguished career with his reputation besmirched," Grossman added.
Mapes will be fired.
Rather will resign.
bizarre..bizarre...bizarre...an 86 year old lady contradicting herself about conversations she never witnessed 30 years ago by a guy who's been dead for 20 years. can it GET ANY WORSE?
JUMPED THE SHARK!!! (5 days ago actually)
My guess is that he will retire to save face.
See Post #19
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.
it was a "CULTURE"...nothing overt...a CULTURE...she knows nothing specific but she FELT it was a CULTURE...BLAH!
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NO NO NO !!! I don't want Gunga Dan to retire yet.
I want to see him crying on the air in the first week of November.
You'd be surprised. My mom is a retired school teacher and I'll occassionally run into grown adults that were in her 3rd grade class. I'll tell my mom about it later and she'll remember that person, who his brothers and sisters were and details about his personality, etc. She can't remember important details of my childhood but she sure remembers some kid she knew for 9 months 20 years ago.
"People will be fired, the program loses its credibility and Dan Rather ends a distinguished career with his reputation besmirched," Grossman added.
Yes, I hope this happens sooner Rather than later.
>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.
So they are accusing the President of the United States of a military criminal offense on the basis that an 86 year old woman's (that is probably too old to drive) OPINION of a CULTURE of special treatment. Not even an EXACT accusation of Bush, but a culture. Total BS all the way.
If this were a criminal case in California, and Rather were the prosecutor, he would be censured by the court for not revealing that he had exculpatory evicence, that he was railroading an innocent defendant to prison.
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