[grey_whiskers]

Before we get too excited, let's take a deep breath.

Is there any way to verify these and make sure they
weren't produced on MS Word?

I'd LOVE this to be true, but could it be a set-up to either discredit upcoming Swift-Boat revelations?
Or a way to 'rehabilitate' Dan Rather?

Yes, I know set-ups arent't the Dims' style--but let's vet this as thoroughly as we would scour any MSM announcement, and make it bulletproof...The way 'Unfit for Command' is.

Full Disclosure: Wouldn't this be a great way to finish off J F'n K? Only thing better would be a speech from his KGB handler, from Moscow, on Thursday or Friday. Hey, I can dream, can't I?

[whershey]

Let's add this up. It was posted on the swiftvets board that the NY Sun is coming out with 2 stories tomorrow at least one of which has to do with Hanoi. Then on this board a hint was given to check out the wintersoldier front page after 8am tomorrow (this morning here). I think tomorrow could be a very fun day. :)

[mnehring]

Good point,
We should be the first to confirm and verify, even if it proves them false. If they are false, and we denounce them first, then we will be trusted when the real dirt hits.
With the freep experience with Rathergate, we will be listened to if they prove to be real.. (wishful thinking..)

[NJ Neocon]

Before we get too excited, let's take a deep breath. Is there any way to verify these and make sure they weren't produced on MS Word?

I'd LOVE this to be true, but could it be a set-up to either discredit upcoming Swift-Boat revelations? Or a way to 'rehabilitate' Dan Rather?

Yes, I know set-ups arent't the Dims' style--but let's vet this as thoroughly as we would scour any MSM announcement, and make it bulletproof...The way 'Unfit for Command' is.

Full Disclosure: Wouldn't this be a great way to finish off J F'n K? Only thing better would be a speech from his KGB handler, from Moscow, on Thursday or Friday. Hey, I can dream, can't I?

Wisdom....

[supercat]

Is there any way to verify these and make sure they weren't produced on MS Word?

Occam's razor would suggest that it would be easier to obtain the typographical effects exhibited there using a mechanical typewriter than using MS Word. That doesn't mean the documents wren't produced last week by some guy with a typewriter, but MS Word seems exceptionally unlikely.

[risk]

I'd LOVE this to be true, but could it be a set-up to either discredit upcoming Swift-Boat revelations?

Wanting this to be true is like wishing there were WMD in Iraq. Just how close have we come to a city being vaporized? How close are we coming to the Manchurian candidate today?

I don't wish for either. I wish the world were more like the Disney world song says, a small one after all.

Somehow I doubt it.

[Richard Kimball]

Verification of these documents should be easy. If they're legit FBI files, there are still copies of them, along with a paper trail of the release through the FOIA. FBI can document easily, and even if Sandy Berger has already investigated and smuggled the documents out in his pants, there will be a trail extending through several offices outlining both the request for the documents and the release of said documents.