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In order for the memos to be “valid”, Killian would have had to: 1) Reject perfectly good, regular typewriters that were available to his unit and in general, that typed all other documents at the time. 2) Make extraordinary efforts to get equipment that – it is virtually certain – weren’t commonly available at that time. 3) Want to create (and thought about creating) 6 documents that were totally different from any others at the time. 4) Make documents that were different from any other then-contemporary documents. 5) Go through extreme Rube Goldberg contortions to make the documents (which even...

CBS did the slickest job of coaxing and pressuring him into showing the documents, and when Bill finally showed CBS the documents, it was under two major conditions," Van Os said. "The most important thing that CBS left out of its statement... is that Bill did not vouch for their authenticity." CBS declined to respond to Van Os' comments.

Although I have some expertise with servicing the sorts of equipment that produced documents back in the 1970s, having serviced copy machines, typewriters, and later on, early word processing systems, I thought the best person to contact regarding the authenticity of the alleged Texas Air National Guard memoranda would be someone who has made a career of producing documents that aren’t real but look it. So I downloaded the scanned images of the memoranda ostensibly written by President Bush’s old National Guard supervising officer, and took the printouts to a friend we’ll call Bernie, who works in, well, a place...

Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian's signature is a matter of public record. It appears on several documents previously released to the public. Here are links to two examples: Bush's Request for Discharge: http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/doc27.gif Misc. Bush personnel files (on page 2): http://www.usatoday.com/news/bushdocs/10-1_2000_Personnel_File.pdf This signature is not the same as the signature on the memos released by CBS's 60 minutes. See the signatures side by side at this link: http://tinypic.com/4l1tx As is clearly evident, the signatures were made by different hands. For instance, the K in Killian alone was made with completely different pen strokes in the CBS documents and the official...