Documents unearthed by CBS News that raise doubts about whether President Bush fulfilled his obligations to the Texas Air National Guard include several features suggesting that they were generated by a computer or word processor rather than a Vietnam War-era typewriter, experts said yesterday.
Experts consulted by a range of news organizations pointed out typographical and formatting questions about four documents as they considered the possibility that they were forged. The widow of the National Guard officer whose signature is on the bottom of the documents also disputed their authenticity.
Friday, September 10, 2004
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Once again, the Washington Post reveals all: you can see the documents for yourself.
Word processor? While the superscript and spacing say one thing, there is nothing said about the physical document: is it an original? Is it typed? Is this the ONLY memo that can be found with such a font/spacing/superscript by this or any other officer in that year? Are there no other memo's to file by this man? When I wrote file memos, I cc'd my manager: sending memos to file with no contemporary witness could be seen as unusual. Are there no other memos to file by any officers?
If this is the only memo of its kind in ALL of its characteristics, then CBS screwed up badly. If they don't have the original, but only a copy, the signature could come from anyplace, and CBS screwed up badly. Then how the memo was obtained becomes quite important: like any "scientific" report, this demands some kind of peer review.
Nothing said. But the author's commanding officer confirms the message in the content: this is pretty much what this man said, he talked to me about this stuff.
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