Forgery Report Sent to the CBS Independent Review Panel. Also, now available for download.

[dickmc]

Thanks to all of you who worked on, and who contributed info to, the CBS 60 Minutes Document Forgery Report. And a particular thanks to the Working Group who stood up and signed the cover letter to CBS and to the CBS Independent Review Panel.

The report has now been sent to both CBS and the CBS Independent Review Panel. It may be downloaded here as a MSWord97 document or here as a pdf.

You are free to download it and to use it as you see fit. However, having said that: The "CBS 60 Minutes Document Forgery Project Working Group" has worked long and hard on what we believe is a valuable and constructive Report. If you feel some agency, media, or CBS affiliate, etc. should have a copy, please download it and print it out. Then simply mail or hand deliver it. That way, your delivery will be far more appreciated than filling the recipient's computer with 600K of "spam", which we all know and love. Any kind of unsolicited "spamming" degrades the value of our effort and we ask that you respect our wishes in this regard.

Besides, sending a printed copy to the recipient will have a greater impact: It shows you cared more than simply hitting the SEND button. Additionally, a printed document is far more useful as the recipient can: think about it more carefully, mark it up with underlines or make notes, carry it to a meeting, read it on a commute or trip, or simply pass it around the office.

Again, the "CBS 60 Minutes Document Forgery Project Working Group" appreciates your interest and encourages you to download this document, save it, send it or the link to friends, etc. Please, however, respect our wishes and efforts and do not send this document as an unsolicited "spam mail" to anyone. If you think it is useful, print it and mail it using the title page behind first, spam warning, title page.

BTW, you should note that the Report is the property of the Working Group that prepared and signed it. Links to the hosting site are encouraged, but the hosting or full reproduction of the Report on another site is not permitted. However, portions of the Report may be quoted provided that proper citation of the Report is included with the quotation. These rules have been set in order to help prevent the Report from being misused or misrepresented.

Thanks from all of us who worked on the document.

[dickmc]

If you are a "signer", we have opened up a Yahoo group for any discussions or material that we may need to take "off-line". I don't know that we will ever need this group for anything, but you should probably go and sign-up. Membership of the group is moderated. It is restricted to "signers"; and all of the: posts, post viewing, files, e-mail, and the like are similarly restricted. The group is at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbsdfp/.

Just click on the "Join this Group";. Again this group is only for "signers"; and membership restriction and access to any material in that group will be totally restricted. This will only be used if there are some details at some point that the CBS 60 Minutes Document Forgery Project Working Group need to discuss in complete privacy amongst ourselves.

If you request permission to join as a "signer" but under a different screen name than on FR, please send me a Freepmail: otherwise I won't be able to know to give permission for you to join.

Thanks,
dickmc

[Ed_in_NJ]

bttt

[Grig]

Thanks! I'm going to email this to everyone I know!

(Just kidding, I saw the first page)

[Grig]

Thanks! I'm going to email this to everyone I know!

(Just kidding, I saw the first page)

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you!

[Congressman Billybob]

Dick,

This is a magnificent piece of work, and you busted your hump to get it completed, polished, and filed. On behalf of the entire FR community, thank you for your service as a true citizen of the United States.

Congressman Billybob

[MeekOneGOP]

Wow! The fastest/shortest Freepathon I have ever seen!:

Q4 FReepathon. Target: $60,000

Receipts & Pledges to-date: $59,522

99%

Woo hoo!! Less than $500 to go!! Thank you FReepers and Lurkers!!

[MonroeDNA]

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!

[snooker]

Well this says abandon Dan, the boys and girls, and do it now. Leave those that did the deed off on the nearest deserted island, and don't call for help.

Must be a lot of unrest in affiliate land.

Going to be fun watching what see-BS does now.

[ForGod'sSake]

Just a terrific job! Congrats to the principles.

A 26+ hour Freepathon?!?!? Gotta Luvit!

FGS

[MeekOneGOP]

Fastest Freepathon ever !

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Media Research Center:
Dan Ra^ther on Bill Clinton:
"I think he’s an honest man."

   O’Reilly: "I want to ask you flat out, do you think President Clinton’s an honest man?"
    Ra^ther: "Yes, I think he’s an honest man."
    O’Reilly: "Do you, really?"
    Ra^ther: "I do."
    O’Reilly: "Even though he lied to Jim Lehrer’s face about the Lewinsky case?"
    Ra^ther: "Who among us has not lied about something?"
    O’Reilly: "Well, I didn’t lie to anybody’s face on national television. I don’t think you have, have you?"
    Ra^ther: "I don’t think I ever have. I hope I never have. But, look, it’s one thing-"
    O’Reilly, jumping in: "How can you say he’s an honest guy then?"
    Ra^ther: "Well, because I think he is. I think at core he’s an honest person. I know that you have a different view. I know that you consider it sort of astonishing anybody would say so, but I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."
    O’Reilly: "Really?!?"
    Ra^ther: "Yeah, I do."
    O’Reilly: "See, I can’t. I want my government to be honest across-the-board. I don’t want people lying."

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[Colorado Doug]

It may be downloaded here as a MSWord97 document or here as a pdf.

Can I get a copy in IBM Selectric?

[pawdoggie]

Of course the main job of the Review Panel is to establish that the documents, forged as they may be, reflect accurate information about then-Lieutenant Bush.

[ForGod'sSake]

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[BigSkyFreeper]

It may be downloaded here as a MSWord97 document or here as a pdf.

Cool. Typed on the same MSWord typewriter the forged document came out of. LMAO!

[NetValue]

I hope I'll be able to read it in MS FORGER. Did you use 4.0 or 6.0? (sarcasm)

[Pharlap]

You raise a good point. Look at Report Observation No. 6. Rather et al have asserted that there is an "underlying truth" that the documents reflect (even if they are forgeries). However, that underlying truth must be based on some tangible evidence, such as contemporaneous handwritten or typewritten notes, or, possibly, a recollection based on seeing such notes. In any of these instances, a legitimate preparer of the documents would have (1) said that the documents are merely transcriptions of what is contained on the handwritten or typewritten notes. And, (2) the preparer would not, therefore, have centered the headings and applied signatures precisely because he/she was merely transcribing from some other documents and would have said so. The same would be true for preparing a recollection of what was seen on documents that no longer exist. But, by preparing documents that look like ORIGINALS, the forger was intending to pass the documents off as ORIGINALS, which undercuts the argument of "underlying truth."

[dickmc]

Actually if you select the words and change the type to "Monospac821 BT" in MSWord you can get an approximation of typewriter unispaced type, but the forger was too incompetent to realize that.

Regards,
Dickmc