[Howlin]

How can you be sure he saw them first?

[counterpunch]

I will explain.
CBS said that the documents - this "hard evidence" - is what convinced Barned to agree to be interviewed. According to their story, if it is to be believed, CBS said to Barnes "we have these damning documents" and that is what made him change his mind and go public with his (newly changed) story.

Now, if it actually was, as this article tells us, Barnes who called up Dan Rather a couple days BEFORE CBS had the documents and told him that he had a "confession" and wanted to be interviewed, since it is reasonable to assume to these documents were the catalyst for this bold decision, because Barnes would not want to be making unsupported accusations without some kind of empirical evidence, then this means Barnes saw the documents a few days before CBS did.

This means he had direct contact with the forger, rather than CBS being the ones to show the docs to Barnes.

Do you follow that now?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Frankly I think these forged documents may have been "in the can" since Bush was inaugurated. The DUI charge didn't work, then the Bush went AWOL charge didn't either, and I think the forged documents were next in line but they couldn't use them since Bush didn't sign a Form 180 at that time, but since he has and he's running for re-election, that was their signal to bring it out for public consumption.