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Couldn't get the link to work, so all I have are your extracted paragraphs. I'm astounded anyone would try to defend the indefensible at this late date.

Beyond the issue of whether any typewriter in the world was hardware capable of producing those memos at all, the premise is STILL absurd. Don't believe it?

Assume the existence of something called "Killian's Secret Memo Typewriter," a high-end machine that only he (who normally did not type) used. Let's suppose he purchased it on his lavish reservist salary. This is a machine which his own secretary who normally did all the typing knew nothing about. That's what he used for the memos. It was hardware-capable of producing said documents.

You still have to believe that Killian *manually* centered his headers exactly the way Microsoft Word does with its auto-centering of the same text. Pixel for pixel. In two memos, months apart, matching a technology that wouldn't exist for something over twenty years.

You have to believe that Killian set his tab stops and margins where the future Microsoft Word would set its default tab stops and margins. He did this pixel for pixel correctly, with no guide but mere chance, in six memos typed over a span of a year and a half.

You have to believe that Killian wrapped his lines just the way MS Word wraps them, every line of every memo in six memos over the span of a year and a half.

You have to belive that Killian thought he was covering his butt for not doing his duty to discipline the insubordinate underling Bush, but instead of naming a superior officer as interfering, he named a former commander who had been retired for a year and a half as interfering. (That is, in writing a memo to cover his butt, he forgot to cover his butt.)

And so forth for several dozens of other points.

Let's suppose he purchased it on his lavish reservist salary.

Actually guardsman. Unit commanders are usually full time state employees, civil servants although they wear their military uniforms all week. Only on drill weekends and during "summer camp", are they are they in a military status A Lt. Col. would be something equivalent to about a GS-14 in the federal civil service. (Reserve unit senior officers and some senior NCOs are federal civil servants "during the week").