[ambrose]

It appears that the CBS and USA Today documents are different in many respects.

Hopefully our sleuths are now carefully comparing both sets.

In addition to missing the underlines in the CBS documents, the USA Today and CBS documents seem to have different markings or scribbles (were these supposed to be initials?) in the bottom right-hand corner of the following documents:

the May 19th memo and the August 18th memo

[Mo1]

Also ... the first memo from USA Today .. only has Killian's name ... no mention of his rank

[M1911A1]

It could be that Burkett (if that is who it is) marked the docs he gave to CBS for emphasis, and CBS or Burkett lined out the address once they decided that the documents should be posted.

Burkett looks like a likely candidate. He has been described as a "straight shooter" by his contemporaries, but apparently has had breakdowns and a huge ax to grind regarding a lawsuit for medical treatment that he feels was lacking after he got sick on military business in Panama. He is currently a "vets against the war and Bush" type.

The animosity provides motive, the testimonials that he was a by the rules guy provides the CBS "unimpeachable" source comment, and he had access.

He has claimed to have witnessed the Bush file being sanitized in the past, but was dismissed as an unreliable source, IIRC.

[Agrarian]

I never did understand those underlines. Why would an officer underline things in his own memo for record? If they are absent in the USA Today versions, then this means there is proof that these (probably forged) documents or document copies were tampered with by someone.