Faking Records…
Questions Surface About Bush Memos
Putting words in dead men’s mouths… that sounds like the trademark of the liberal agenda to me. Recently, memos were discovered that held some discouraging opinions of President Bush’s National Guard service. These memos were attributed to the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, one of Bush’s commanders from 1972 to 1973. Killian died in 1984.
CBS’s experts evaluated the documents and claims that they are authentic. However, independent document examiners - including Killian’s son - had the following to say:
Gary Killian, who served in the Guard with his father and retired as a captain in 1991, said he doubted his father would have written an unsigned memo which said there was pressure to “sugar coat” Bush’s performance review.
“It just wouldn’t happen,” he said. “No officer in his right mind would write a memo like that.”
The personnel chief in Killian’s unit at the time also said he believes the documents are fake.
“They looked to me like forgeries,” said Rufus Martin. “I don’t think Killian would do that, and I knew him for 17 years.” Killian died in 1984.
Independent document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines said the memos looked like they had been produced on a computer using Microsoft Word software. Lines, a document expert and fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, pointed to a superscript - a smaller, raised “th” in “111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron” - as evidence indicating forgery.
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“I’m virtually certain these were computer generated,” Lines said after reviewing copies of the documents at her office in Paradise Valley, Ariz. She produced a nearly identical document using her computer’s Microsoft Word software.
CBS wouldn’t purposefully sway their data to yield the examination results they wanted, would they?
Maybe they would.
