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[bryant]

Not that this will convince anyone, but Lt. Col. Killian's secretary says she didn't believe in the CBS documents. She says, as has been hypothesized, that she would have typed the documents for him and that she doesn't remember doing so. She was very specific about the typewriters she had available.

She also verified the content of the memos, and said that they accurately reflected Killian's opinions about Bush.

This all jibes pretty well with the theory that Bill Burkett was the source of the memos. He believes he saw Bush's records being purged back in 1997. He's highly pissed off about the whole thing. I'm ready to believe that he made a stupid mistake, and that he recreated (or perhaps simply retyped) memos that summarize how Killian felt at the time.

This explains why the memos mesh with what is painfully obvious: Bush didn't take his National Guard service too seriously, and he was willing to pull strings to make it easier on himself. It also explains the amazing coincidence that the line breaks in the memos fall exactly where Microsoft Word's default line wrap algorithm would put them. I've liked the "forgeries based on real documents" explanation for a while, so perhaps I'm biased, but I think the Dallas News story linked above illuminates the entire thing quite nicely.

Comments

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

I'd be willing to believe that. The witness is actually a lot more credible than the lame typographic stuff.

[head58.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to buy that they could be forgeries, yes. But does it make a lick of difference? These were really the least important of the documents that came out weren't they? The fact remains that GWB had an obligation to join up with a reserve unit once he moved to Cambridge, failed to do so, and that his people a few years back still insisted that he did so. Whether this memo was typed in MS Word doesn't change that, nor does it explain why he didn't take his physical back in 72 (or was it 73?).

But by hopping up and down on this story, the entire issue of Bush's service now has a nice frosting of "forgery" on top in the public eye. Any attempt at discussing the matter further will result in a response of "don't I remember seeing on Fox that Kerry forged all that?" Victory: Rove.

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Yep. In spite of the lies of the SBVfT and Rove, what the media will get out of this is that Democrats are forgers. Just the thing we need, how nice.

[gentlyepigrams]

Unsurprisingly, I agree with Croft.

The secretary is the one witness I'm really likely to believe about this, on the grounds that she both was likely to know what she typed and what equipment the TANG used (a subject which all this typographical crap has conveniently overlooked to date AFAICT). I'm surprised it's taken someone this long to get her story.