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Questions Linger Over Bush Memos
By ?
(Direct descendent of
Karl Marx! - tha malcontent)
Associated Press Writer
Sept 13, 9:20 PM EDT
NEW YORK
(CBS/AP)
� Amid challenges
from other news organizations and partisans, CBS News continued to defend itself
over criticism stemming from documents it obtained that questioned President
Bush's service in the Air National Guard.
(ap) - "Amid
challenges from other news organizations and PARTISANS...". Yeah, we can
tell the REPUBLICan Revolution making it's way into your Monopoly of
Information, is getting on your Nerves, SeeBS! Considering the Substance
of the Allegations Against your Editor, Dan Rather (D), I would not go throwing
around "Partisan" so loosely, you know what I'm saying! Just so that we
are clear right up front, the worst answer to these "questions" that the "Free
Press" has been festering for over 4 years now, is that Lt. Bush (43) may have
been a Mediocre Guardsman, and people with the Power, may have pulled some
strings... Does this Shock any person with a pulse, even it's True? How
about the strings that J. Forbes Kerry had pulled to get out of Vietnam after "(s)uffering"
3 wounds that led to 3 Purple Hearts, one of which he requested even after his
Doctor and Commander Denied him the Award, and none of which caused him a
night's stay? Kerry certainly seemed to gain almost immediate notoriety
upon returning home after 4 short months of his Abbreviated Tour, a Tour he did
not Realize was going to be Combat after he Opted for non-Combat Swift Boats,
after his Guard Unit was called up, after his Deferment to Paris was Denied...
More Strings pulled for Mr. Heinz-Kerry? Anyway, the larger issue here is
that it appears that CBS News may be distancing itself from Rather. After
this initial last ditch effort to Excuse the Inexcusable on the part of Dan
Rather (D), CBS almost seems resigned to Admit that it's Mother, the Associated
Press, is not buying Rather's (D), "The Memos are not Forged" story either.
We shall see what comes as the days pass. - tha malcontent
On "The CBS Evening News" Monday night, Dan Rather said his original report on
"60 Minutes" used several different techniques to make sure the memos were
genuine, including talking to handwriting and document analysts and other
experts who strongly insist that the documents could have been created in the
1970s.
(Dan Rather (D) Refuses to disclose ALL Sources and
Experts as of this Date - tha malcontent)
In addition to the forensic evidence, Monday's "Evening News" story said the
original report relied on an analysis of the contents of the documents
themselves and interviews with colleague's of the author to determine their
authenticity. The new papers are in line with what is known about the
president's service assignments and dates, CBS said.
(Dan Rather (D) Refuses to disclose ALL Sources and
Experts as of this Date - tha malcontent)
For instance, CBS said, the official record shows that Mr. Bush was suspended
from flying on Aug. 1, 1972. That date matches the one on a memo given to CBS
News, ordering that Mr. Bush be suspended.
(The memos are Clearly in Question, and that is "in
Question" by mainstream Sources such as the AP. Dan Rather (D) needs to
back his story up with more than the "memos in Question" and Sources who are
falling faster than Iraqi Civilians during the Saddam Regime! - tha malcontent)
At question are memos that carry the signature of the late Lt. Col. Jerry
Killian, who was the commander of Mr. Bush's Texas Air National Guard fighter
squadron. They say Killian was under pressure to "sugar coat" Mr. Bush's record,
and Mr. Bush refused a direct order to take a required medical examination and
discussed how he could skip drills.
Raising one question, The Dallas Morning News said in a report for its Saturday
editions that the officer named in a memo as exerting pressure to "sugar coat"
Mr. Bush's record had left the Texas Air National Guard 1� years before the memo
was dated.
("The Dallas Morning News"?...
Well, well, well... Why did Dan Rather's (D) crack team of Vetters not find this
little nugget out about one of the star Witnesses?... Of course, the Witness
cannot be contacted for comment as of today, and the memo that Dan Rather (D) is
attempting to credit to him is under Question by everyone except the Handwriting
Analyst that Rather (D) hired, and Rather (D) himself... The memo was
TYPED, not "handwritten", Dan! Maybe it's time to Retire, Kenneth! - tha
malcontent)
The newspaper said it obtained an order showing that Walter B. Staudt, former
commander of the Texas Guard, retired on March 1, 1972. The memo was dated Aug.
18, 1973. A telephone call to Staudt's home Friday night was not answered.
("So what?"... Dan Rather (D) was
heard Retorting under his breath. - tha malcontent
New York Times columnist William Safire wrote Monday that Newsweek magazine had
apparently begun an external investigation: it names "a disgruntled former Guard
officer" as a principal source for CBS, noting "he suffered two nervous
breakdowns" and "unsuccessfully sued for medical expenses."
(Is this Newsweak biting the back
of CBS, or am I imagining it? - tha malcontent)
The L.A. Times reported that handwriting analyst, Marcel Matley, who CBS had
claimed vouched for the authenticity of four memos, vouched for only one
signature, and no scribbled initials. The Times reports he has no opinion about
the typography of any of the supposed memos.
(And the LA Times?... Dan Rather
(D), what did you do to piss your Colleagues off? Does it really take the
LA Times to point out what Conservative Sources have been saying since hours
after the program for it to gain Legitimacy? How did CBS allow typed
Documents to be aired that potentially Slander the President, without Vetting it
through and Expert on Typography?... Oh yeah, a Collective Bias, I forgot. - tha
malcontent
"60 Minutes" relied on the documents as part of a Wednesday segment � reported
by Rather � on Mr. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968 to
1973.
(Dan Rather (D) Refuses to disclose ALL Sources and
Experts as of this Date - tha malcontent)
Former colleagues of Killian have since offered differing views on the
authenticity of the documents.
(Maybe these "Colleagues" and
Killian's family should have been contacted by Dan Rather (D) before the CBS
Editor went to the Airwaves with this TRIPE! - tha malcontent)
Robert Strong, who appeared in the original segment, said after it aired that
still did not see anything in the memos that made him think they were forgeries.
Robert Strong noted he's not a forensic expert and isn't vouching for the
documents.
("Robert
Strong noted he's not a forensic expert and isn't vouching for the
documents."... Maybe they should check with the printing Department at the local
Office Depot next time!... Why is Mr. Strong's Opinion Relevant in this regard,
SeeBS? - tha malcontent)
"I didn't see anything that was inconsistent with how we did business," Strong
said in an interview. "It looked like the sort of thing that Jerry Killian would
have done or said. He was a very professional guy."
("He
was a very professional guy." ... Well that does it, Bush (43) is Guilty of High
Treason and should Resign in the Morning... Pathetic! - tha malcontent)
Retired Col. Maurice Udell, the unit's instructor pilot who helped train Mr.
Bush, said Friday he thought the documents were fake.
"I completely am disgusted with this (report) I saw on 60 Minutes,"' Udell said.
"That's not true. I was there. I knew Jerry Killian. I went to Vietnam with
Jerry Killian in 1968."
(According to the "Free Press" and
their Abject unwillingness to Address J. Forbes on ANY issue regarding his
Service, because he "went to Vietnam, and Bush (43) did not...", then I guess
Udell is an unImpeachable Source... Case Closed. - tha malcontent)
Killian's son also questioned some of the documents, saying his father would
never write a memo like the "sugar coat" one.
(Well, that sounds like one Military Source and the
Son of the Supposed memo Author disagree with the one named Military Source
who's Opinion agrees with the Agenda of Rather's (D) Story... Piss-Poor "(j)ournalism"
at best!... - tha malcontent)
Several of the document examiners said one clue that the documents may be
forgeries was the presence of superscripts � in this case, a raised, smaller "th"
in two references to Guard units.
In a report on Friday's "Evening News,"Dan Rather, also reported that
typewriters were available in the early 1970s which were capable of printing
superscripts. CBS pointed to other Texas Air National Guard documents released
by the White House that include an example of a raised "th" superscript.
That superscript, however, is in a different typeface than the one used for the
CBS memos, according to some others who have soken up.
(I have no clue what CBS was
attempting to relate when they posted "soken up"... It's not there now, and I
can only let the reader make their own mind up about the Intent! - tha
malcontent)
Document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines of Paradise Valley, Ariz., who examined
the documents for the AP, said she was "virtually certain" they were generated
by computer.
("Virtually Certain"... And that's
an AP Source. - tha malcontent)
Some forensic experts were quoted by news organizations, including The
Associated Press, saying the memos appeared to have been computer-generated with
characteristics that weren't available three decades ago.
("By News Organizations", and not
simply "Partisans", as the story began?... For those of you who are either
Dishonest or Ignorant, the "News Organizations" in America are so far beyond
"Partisan", that it is Laughable to claim otherwise! - tha malcontent)
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