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To: JeffA who wrote (15938)	9/9/2004 10:28:32 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 90947

Parson is trying to change the subject on you to shift away from the forgeries. Perhaps he's trying to avoid embarrassment. And I see Trinchero is a little behind the news cycle. ;-)

To: JeffA who wrote (15938)	9/9/2004 10:38:43 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 90947

Jeff, ask CR if this will do. ;-) Washington Post is on the story now. Killian's widow says the docs are "a farce." story.news.yahoo.com From the article: After doubts about the documents began circulating on the Internet yesterday morning, The Post contacted several independent experts who said they appeared to have been generated by a word processor. An examination of the documents by The Post shows that they are formatted differently from other Texas Air National Guard documents whose authenticity is not questioned. William Flynn, a forensic document specialist with 35 years of experience in police crime labs and private practice, said the CBS documents raise suspicions because of their use of proportional spacing techniques. Documents generated by the kind of typewriters that were widely used in 1972 space letters evenly across the page, so that an "i" uses as much space as an "m." In the CBS documents, by contrast, each letter uses a different amount of space. While IBM had introduced an electric typewriter that used proportional spacing by the early 1970s, it was not widely used in government. In addition, Flynn said, the CBS documents appear to use proportional spacing both across and down the page, a relatively recent innovation. Other anomalies in the documents include the use of the superscripted letters "th" in phrases such as "111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron," Bush's unit. "It would be nearly impossible for all this technology to have existed at that time," said Flynn, who runs a document authentication company in Phoenix. Other experts largely concurred. Phil Bouffard, a forensic document examiner from Cleveland, said the font used in the CBS documents appeared to be Times Roman, which is widely used by word-processing programs but was not common on typewriters.