And ... wouldn't it be a hoot if he didn't write it
Letter is 2 years old. NYTimes sat on the story for a year. Smells more like a coordinated plan to me.
Coordinated plan, just as Bush's numbers are going up. They can't let that happen.
I agree
Speaking of that, here's some news on that issue:
I just sent off the book proposal draft for the agent who is going to shop it around. In the chapter dedicated to the fake memos, I gave her a pass on stuff like the typos, fonts, etc., because you guys and others have already proved that. Instead I went against her new defense, repeated ad nauseam, and in bold italics in the above excerpt; that ALL the evidence supports the documents. I was running out of paper in tearing apart her own arguments and exposing glaring errors. One example: Twice in the 6 fakes one finds Bush's service number. Problem here for Mary is that these memos are in 1972 and 73. The Air Force stopped using service numbers on July 1, 1969, and switched over to social security numbers, 3 and 4 years prior. All of Bush's released records had the SSNo blacked out as required by law. But old service numbers from Bush's earlier documents were not redacted...[The fabricator] grabbed the service numbers from released records, not realizing that they would never show up on a 72-73 document. Irony is, he put the anachronistic service numbers in the wrong format - the FG had to be a prefix, not a suffix, like FG 1234567...For a while we used to put the two letter code FG (means Air Guard; FR means Air Force Reserve, FV means active duty Air Force) as a suffix to the new SSNo ID, as in 987 65 4321FG. Later we dropped the two letter code entirely. [The fabricator's] personal experience was with the 987-65-4321 FV format (actually, the Army Guard used different codes), so when he grabbed the service number from files to add a hint of authenticity to the memos, he probably reverted to habit. Stupid, because if you look at Bush's real records, you will see the letters FG as a prefix - he couldn't even plagiarize correctly!
Two years old goes back to the period when a lot of this was being plotted. Rockefeller's note to the Dems on the Intelligence Committee calling on them to use their inside knowledge for political purposes. Wilson's trip to Africa. The whole Plamegate ploy. It stands to reason that he would file a letter like this away for future use--assuming he didn't actually write it yesterday.
There's not much doubt that Rockefeller has been on the inside of a lot of plotting and planning to sabotage our country in order to bring down the administration. The Republicans were absolutely stupid to fire their own aides for trying to bring this skullduggery to the public's attention--without, actually, violating any rules or laws or breaking into any secret files.