Posted on 09/15/2004 7:06:18 PM PDT by KStorm
Edited on 09/15/2004 7:13:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
DRUDGE SIREN:
CBS Guard Documents Traced to Texas Kinko's...
WASH POST: Documents allegedly written by deceased officer that raised questions about Bush's service with Texas National Guard bore markings showing they had been faxed to CBS News from a Kinko's copy shop in Abilene, Texas... Developing...
Typically it's the Rats that abandon a sinking ship.
It's the sharks that show up to devour the hapless swimmers.
When I make my post, there were only 30 posts on the thread. This thread is moving fast and I agree with you.
Someone should go there, rent a computer, report back to FR from there. Send us make/model of fax...we will look up instructions for printing log.
We know the CBS fax number from screenshots.
Thanks, got it.
yes... that's the fact.
Yeah - I overslept yesterday because of this...
I just want to state for the record
I can't keep up with all this breaking news *L*
As we now know, CBS' own expert told them there were problems with the documents – the main one being that they were clearly fakes dummied up at a Kinko's outlet from somebody's laptop at 4 a.m.
Either Ann gets her column together in a real hurry, or a little birdie whispered in her ear about the Kinko's angle.
The FBI needs to be looking at this.
And quite HUGE as well, eh?!
Everybody's a comedian!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21561-2004Sep14.html
excerpted
A Late Development in Fontgate
By Al Kamen
Wednesday, September 15, 2004; Page A23
Beleaguered CBS anchor Dan Rather and CBS executives have "found a new memo that completely vindicates them," according to some creative bloggers.
The note is from President Bush's late Texas National Guard commander, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, who just wrote Rather to reassure him that the highly suspect documents used on a "60 Minutes" report showing favoritism to Bush were absolutely, positively, 100 percent real.
Experts say the documents appear to be fake for a number of reasons. They note that some of the typewriter characteristics did not exist in the early 1970s, when Killian supposedly wrote them. Problems with writing styles, dates and addresses also lead experts to strongly question the documents' authenticity.
But network executives and Rather have repeatedly insisted that the documents are real and that they stand by them.
This latest "document," however, should put to rest any allegation that Rather got hoodwinked by a rather lame fraud. On the other hand, some experts immediately challenged the authenticity of this latest document, saying it lacked the requisite sign-off: "Courage."
I think the Washington Post is smelling "Pulitzer"
The WP is jumping on this rather fast. Make that Rather fast.
YES! If you know anybody in Abilene or the area WAKE 'EM UP!
HA! Onward!
You mean, Baird, TX has NO fax machines..
Most drug store's have them to fax in prescription requests. Banks, some big grocery stores...
So, Secret Agent man, drove 20 miles to cover his tracks?? How odd...
If the fax showed the location (i.e., Kinko's) did it also show the date the fax was sent?
If Burkett is as crazy as everyone says, they'd better put him on suicide watch.
I am sitting here doing some remote viewing. I see a man from Baird, TX doing a perp walk. I see a network news anchor from Texas sucking wind as he walks the halls of a nursing home. I see the son of President from Midland walking down the steps of the capitol taking the oath for his second term.
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