Posted on 09/09/2004 12:42:25 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
Those records were his flight records and AP got them.
These memos came from CBS; they gave them to the White House before their program last night.
"The White House was complaining about how after they requested Bush's record more appeared with a FOIA."
The gist of this was, as I understood it, that the WH was not happy that, after it ordered everything released, it did not expect to learn that some things were not. Now, of course, it appears possible that these memos were not released because THEY DID NOT EXIST!
Agree with your comments. Everything about these documents stinks of forgery - beginning with the wording and the typography. Several former military officers have posted that the abbreviations and format are all wrong.
Said this will be the end of Don Hewitt at 60 Minutes and likely tarnish Rather forever.
He's going into the detail that he's obviously read about on the web.
Where is that?
Didn't Hewitt retire earlier this year?
Again, those records the White House was talking about are the records that the Pentagon released to the AP in regards to their FOIA lawsuit.
These memos were "given" to CBS and they faxed them to the White House.
Anybody who has these documents got them from CBS because they are NOT in Bush's official file.
Good post, good info.
I just think it's a little premature to call these forgeries. On other threads, most of the forgery claims - e.g., the non-availability of particular fonts before a certain date - have been disputed by one or more posters.
I have no idea. I don't watch 60 Minutes and know nothing about it.
We now have the new name for the Kerry Campaign: FALTERGATE.
A criminal investigation is needed to determine the source of the documents, as well as their validity or forgery. Dan Rather can take his documents and as tereza says shove it..
This is a real embarrasment to the media in the United States from CBS to all the followers who jumped on the story and tried to manipulate it. The old media is in its final death throes...what did it take, less than an hour for the documents to come under serious doubt last night?
I want to know who supplied the documents and who the supposed document examiner was that CBS suppoesedly had examine them
"Killian died in 1984. 60 Minutes consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/06/politics/main641481.shtml
Go to Drudge.
This is dirtiest election ever run by democrats and that is saying something, these people are EVIL. Bush has tried to fight fair, but these liars, criminals, communists and blood sucking venim are the devils' own!
White House Privately Furious? The White House is privately furious with Pentagon officials over how they've handled President Bush's National Guard records. As recently as February the president asked the Pentagon to release all of his service records, and records were produced.
But then a few months later, more records were produced, and the White House was assured that was all of them. Well, after a Freedom of Information Act (search) request from the AP, the Pentagon has now produced even more records.
And the White House, still unhappy with the last misstep, asked the Pentagon to release them to more than just the AP. But the Pentagon balked ... That is until a senior official forcefully reminded the Pentagon that it was the president who first requested the records' release.
To quote RR himself - it's amazing what you can get done if you don't care who gets the credit!
BINGO!!!!!!!
I just read the text of the memos. The 2nd and 4th memos strike me as absolute nonsense. I can't, for the life of me imagine any commanding officer documenting something of this nature. A memo titled "CYA" should be a red flag to any sane person familiar with military documents. Also, the memno titled "Discussion with Bush . . . " also comes across as a forged document designed to fit certain manufactured events that the Dems have been claiming.
Given the very political nature of the military and the precariousness of memorializing such information in hard copy form, it is extremely unlikely that ANY senior officer having such "memos" would be placing his career in extreme jeopardy.
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