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Federal law requires that the valid fax number of the originating fax machine be displayed on EVERY PAGE OF any outgoing fax.

And, while any fax machine can be programmed to lie or omit the number, Kinko's would have their machine use the correct one.

Everybody's a comedian!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21561-2004Sep14.html

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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."

Federal law requires that the valid fax number of the originating fax machine be displayed on EVERY PAGE OF any outgoing fax.

And, while any fax machine can be programmed to lie or omit the number, Kinko's would have their machine use the correct one.

How come there aren't any fax numbers on the pdfs provided on CBS's website? Did CBS manipulate the faxes?

BushGuardaugust1.pdf has dots near both the top and bottom margin of the page. This tends to indicate that BushGuardaugust1.pdf wasn't sent by fax. Note: There are plain space gaps in the others.