UPDATE: I now have copies of the memos the White House released, and they are just versions that CBS faxed to the White House the day before the 60 Minutes segment aired. There's no indication that the White House had its own copies of these memos and had been sitting on them.Apologies.
As a result, CedarDave is back on the side of these being forgeries after wavering for a couple of hours.
Well, if they're forgeries, then Rove did it. Or Hillary. Right? ;^)
Thanks Dave.
WOSG: See #608.
It is true we all knew as a matter of record that Bush had been ordered to take a physical and did not due to non-flying status in Alabama and so was grounded. That is not new. So Memo 1 and 3 appear to buttress but evidently are "new" as saying the same thing but are written differently than what was placed in GWB's file. Memo 2 completely vindicates GWB as Killian notes that GWB informs him he'll take the physical IF he maintains flight status and Killian doesn't note that this is against the rules or anything. Memo 4 is the most obscure and if it is authentic it is open to intrepretation and in the final analysis again does not indicate wrong-doing by Bush.
I see some dems going around very pleased with themselves. I actually just saw Richard Goodstein simpering to Shep Smith that this shows the Bush WH was not forthcoming *and you won't see that with John Kerry*. I wanted to smack his smirking face. How on God's green earth would the WH be in a position to release documents from someone's personal file?
CBS needs to disclose who gave them these documents.