Bush AWOL documents fake?

Anybody who would think they got a real Rembrandt painting for $1.5M would deserve to be duped.

Does anyone else find the phrase "confirmation of the forgeries alongside with confirmation of their content" funny?

The Dallas Morning News reported on September 15 that Marian Carr Knox, former secretary for Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Killian, purported author of the memos, said that although she did not recall typing the memos reported by CBS News, they accurately reflect the viewpoints of Killian and documents that would have been in the personal file. Knox told The Morning News: "The information in here was correct, but it was picked up from the real ones. ... I probably typed the information and somebody picked up the information some way or another."

Colonel Bobby W. Hodges, Killian's superior officer, has also confirmed that the content of the memos reflects Killian's true sentiments. CBS cited Hodges in its initial defense (video links: MPEG-4, Windows Media) of the documents on September 10, but as The New York Times reported, Hodges changed his opinion because "network producers had never showed him the documents but had only read them to him over the phone." Once Hodges saw the actual documents, he judged them to be forgeries. "I thought they were handwritten notes," Hodges told the Times. But the same article made clear that Hodges confirmed the accuracy of the contents of the memos:

He [Hodges] said he had not authenticated the documents for CBS News but had confirmed that they reflected issues he and Colonel Killian had discussed -- namely Mr. Bush's failure to appear for a physical, which military records released previously by the White House show, led to a suspension from flying.

Richard Via, another former Texas National Guard officer, told USA Today that "the documents were fakes but that their content reflected questions about Bush that were discussed at the time in the hangar at Ellington Air Force Base, where he had a desk next to Killian's."

OLBERMANN: The woman who was the secretary to Lieutenant Colonel Killian in the 1970s says that she believes that the documents are, in fact, fraudulent but that the sentiments are, in fact, accurate. ... Those are not real, said this woman, Marian Carr Knox. "They're not what I typed and I would have typed them for him." But she says the information in here was correct, but it was picked up from the real ones, Knox says as she looked at the memos. She said she remembered vividly when Bush was there and all the yak-yak that was going on about it. So a breaking development that sends a question of authenticity through the roof in terms of the documents but also questions whether or not they're stating the truth even if the documents themselves are false.

Yup. Marian Carr Knox, a fifteen minute whore for the democrats. Lovely.

Of course, that's just my opinion.

Dookie, none of the technologically-referrenced challenges to the documents has been refuted.

Paranoia and panic among one's opponents is delicious.

Actually, ill-informed political hacks and ultra-partisan zombies are MUCH more delicious to the palette, timber.

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Yup. Marian Carr Knox, a fifteen minute whore for the democrats. Lovely.

Yup. McGentrix, once again offering us a completely asinine response from a typical neoconservative.

I guess Colonel Bobby W. Hodges and Richard Via are also fifteen minute "whores" for the Democratic party.

If you're so certain you know what Bush did in the Guard, perhaps you can collect that $10,000 being offered by that group in Texas who are questioning Bush's service. So far, no takers.

I also wonder why Bush cannot tell us in ANY detail, other than to say he can't remember, what he did in the Guard during the time in question.

I wonder why that is, McGentrix? And please, as you've asked yourself before, try and keep it clean this time.