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To: combjelly who wrote (55136)	9/9/2004 4:52:21 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Believe what you will. It is interesting, though, that they could get Word to generate the characters slightly uneven on the bottom like the old Selectrics did. But, what the heck... I don't expect you to take my word for it. Find out for yourself. Pull up a copy of one of the forgeries and type a copy, spaced the same, with your MS word. Then compare them. They are a perfect match. Remember, the forgery was run though a copy machine many times to disguise the ink jet.

To: combjelly who wrote (55136)	9/10/2004 2:13:54 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

<font size=4>Bush Guard Documents: Forged I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft’s Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date “18 August 1973,” then typed the rest of the document purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian. And my Microsoft Word version, typed in 2004, is an exact match for the documents trumpeted by CBS News as “authentic.” A screenshot of the “original” document as found at CBS: <font color=green> (see all screen shots at link below) <font color=black> __________ A screenshot of my Microsoft Word document: __________ <font color=red>The spacing is not just similar—it is identical in every respect.<font color=black> Notice that the date lines up perfectly, all the line breaks are in the same places, all letters line up with the same letters above and below, and the kerning is exactly the same. <font color=red>And I did not change a single thing from Word’s defaults; margins, type size, tab stops, etc. are all using the default settings.<font color=black> The one difference (the “th” in “187th” is slightly lower) is probably due to a slight difference between the Mac and PC versions of the Times New Roman font, or it could be an artifact of whatever process was used to artificially “age” the document. (Update: I printed the document and the “th” matches perfectly in the printed version. It’s a difference between screen and printer fonts.) There is absolutely no way that this document was typed on any machine that was available in 1973. UPDATE at 9/9/04 10:57:34 am: And this is not the only document that was apparently written with Microsoft Word; Jeremy Chrysler had the same idea and discovered another exact correspondence: Bush Guard Documents Forged? UPDATE at 9/9/04 11:28:55 am: Here are the two documents superimposed—and please note that when I cut and pasted the images, I just eyeballed it with no special effort to match sizes: UPDATE at 9/9/04 12:44:26 pm: Roger L. Simon comments: It’s fascinating how quickly the blogs and the Internet were able to catch this as compared to intelligence agencies which were so slow off the mark with the Niger documents. Once again: advantage blogosphere!<font size=3> littlegreenfootballs.com.