Buckhead was the first Freeper to give indesputable technical evidence that the documents were forgeries in Post 47.
However, looking over the thread, it was Texasforever that first noticed that the memos did not look quite right and stated "I don't believe these are legit documents" :
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To: Howlin
Did you notice that NO ONE was CC'd on those memos?
27 posted on 09/08/2004 8:29:02 PM PDT by Texasforever
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To: Texasforever
And what does that mean?
32 posted on 09/08/2004 8:37:12 PM PDT by Howlin
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It means he , if he actually wrote them, didn't see fit to send the memos to anyone else. So why write them in the first place?
38 posted on 09/08/2004 8:41:36 PM PDT by Texasforever
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To: Texasforever
I think they were his private papers?
44 posted on 09/08/2004 8:53:07 PM PDT by Howlin
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"I think they were his private papers?"
So why write them? If he was REALLY trying to CYA then he would have sent his concerns up the chain otherwise he would be in deep Sh%T if he had to explain later why he didn't let someone else know about a supposed violation of a direct order. Nope I don't believe these are legit documents since CBS will not say who they got them from so the originals can be examined.
For the record, here is the compilation post I did regarding exactly how this happened:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220090/posts?page=2#2
As you can all see, many, many Freepers were involved from the second Dan Rather held up those papers.