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To: JeffA who wrote (15853)	9/9/2004 2:26:58 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

If found to be wanting, hammer'em! I am trying to keep my blood pressure under control while the facts are checked but if these are found wanting I think a firing squad using bb guns would be too f-ing nice. How much evidence is needed before folks come to the conclusion that the media elite are actively attempting to sway the election? I mean this is beginning to look like Goebbels work for Christ sake.

To: JeffA who wrote (15853)	9/9/2004 5:14:34 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Jeff, the first thing I did when I saw the forgery story was compare the new memos to the typed portions of other docs available from Bush's record (at USAToday: usatoday.com ), especially focusing on docs with Killian's signature (which I also compared - it was close, but there were noticeable differences like the way the i's were dotted and being more scrunched together than on the authenticated docs). Anyway, the typed portions of the other docs had a similar font, but it was NOT proportionally spaced. All characters line up nicely with those in the row above/below - i.e. a fixed number of characters per line. The difference was fairly obvious. BTW, I seriously doubt some TANG squadron commander in 1972 would have been typing on what would have to have been a top of the line for the time IBM (if he ever, in fact, typed his own memos). He also wouldn't have taken the time to make two of the memos look like they were on letterhead when they clearly were not and few other documents in his file were (none that I can find from within TANG). Then there's the matter of the superscript "th" in some places in the memos (and regular typeface "th" in others). I recall from the olden days being able to do superscripts (if you wanted to go to the trouble), but I'm dang sure you couldn't do it in a smaller font like we find in these memos (and like MS Word does automatically - you have to "undo" it afterward) and there's NO f'ing way they had typewriters with a special character key for a superscript reduced font "th". Forgeries? Yep, fer sure! Just my guess.