Dude, if these documents are a hoax, how come the Pentagon suddenly came up with some of Bush's 'missing' papers this week.....the same day the alleged forgeries made their appearance.......and where are the rest of Bush's 'missing' files?
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<font color=brown>"The statement said CBS reporters had verified the documents by talking to unidentified individuals who saw them "at the time they were written".
A CBS spokeswoman, Kelli Edwards, declined to respond to questions from experts who examined copies of the papers at the request of The Washington Post, or to provide the names of the experts CBS consulted.
William Flynn, a forensic document specialist with 35 years of experience in police crime labs and private practice, said the documents raise suspicions because they use proportional spacing.
Documents generated by the typewriters widely used in 1972 space letters evenly across the page, so that an "i" uses as much space as an "m". But in the CBS documents each letter uses a different amount of space.
A CBS official, who asked not to be named, identified one of the network's sources as a retired major-general, Bobby Hodges, the immediate superior of the documents' alleged author, Lieutenant-Colonel Jerry Killian.
He said a CBS reporter read the documents to Mr Hodges, who had replied "these are the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time".
"These documents represent what Killian not only was putting in memoranda, but was telling other people," the CBS News official said. "Journalistically, we've gone several extra miles."
The official said the network regarded Mr Hodges's comments as "the trump card" on the question of authenticity, because he is a Republican who acknowledged that he did not want to hurt Mr Bush."
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