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You know those memos that just surfaced from President Bush's former commanding officer? The ones that 'show' Lt. Bush was a problem? They're probably forgeries.
From Power Line: The Sixty-First Minute
Today's big Boston Globe story on President Bush's Air National Guard service is based on memos to file from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian: "Bid cited to boost Bush in Guard."The Globe story is itself based on last night's 60 Minutes report: "New questions on Bush Guard duty." The online version of the 60 Minutes story has links to the memos. Killian died in 1984; CBS states that it "consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic." Readers Tom Mortensen and Liz MacDougald direct us to a FreeRepublic thread post no. 47 to this effect:
Every single one of the memos to file regarding Bush's failure to attend a physical and meet other requirements is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman. In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing (especially in the military), and typewriters used mono-spaced fonts.There's a couple of updates that add 'fuel to the fire'.I was a clerk/typist for the US Navy at the Naval Underwater Systems Center (NUSC) in Newport RI for my summer job in 1971 when I was in college. I note the following with regard to the Killian memos:
- Tom Mortensen is absolutely correct. Variable type was used only for special printing jobs, like official pamphlets. These documents are forgeries, and not even good ones. Someone could have at least found an old pre-Selectric IBM (introduced around 1962). Actually, I believe we were using IBM Model C's at the time, which was the precursor to the Selectric.
- I also used a Variype machine in 1971. I fooled around with it in my spare time. It was incredibly difficult to set up and use. It was also extremely hard to correct mistakes on the machine. Most small letters used two spaces. Capital letters generally used three spaces. I think letters like "i" may have used one space. Anyway, you can see that this type of machine was piloted by an expert, and it would NEVER be used for a routine memo. A Lt. Colonel would not be able to identify a Varitype machine, let alone use it.
- US Navy paper at the time was not 8 1/2 x 11. It was 8 x 10 1/2. I believe this was the same throughout the military, but someone will have to check on that. This should show up in the Xeroxing, which should have lines running along the sides of the Xerox copy.
- I am amused by the way "147 th Ftr.Intrcp Gp." appears in the August 1, 1972 document. It may have been written that way in non-forged documents, but as somone who worked for ComCruDesLant, I know the military liked to bunch things together. I find "147 th" suspicious looking. 147th looks better to me, but the problem with Microsoft Word is that it keeps turning the "th" tiny if it is connected to a number like 147. And finally......
- MORE DEFINITIVE PROOF OF FORGERY: I had neglected even to look at the August 18, 1973 memo to file. This forger was a fool. This fake document actually does have the tiny "th" in "187th" and there is simply no way this could have occurred in 1973. There are no keys on any typewriter in common use in 1973 which could produce a tiny "th." The forger got careless after creating the August 1, 1972 document and slipped up big-time.
In summary, the variable type reveals the Killian memos to be crude forgeries, the tiny "th" confirms it in the 8/18/73 memo, and I offer my other points as icing on the cake.
Memo for May 4, 1972 (PDF format)
Memo for May 19, 1972 (PDF format)
Memo for August 1, 1972 (PDF format)
Memo for August 18, 1973 (PDF format)
The odd thing is that when I was looking at them they didn't seem 'right', but I couldn't figure out what it was about these 'memos' that was strange. Now it makes sense.
Are people that desperate to get President Bush out of office? At least get some people who know what they're doing fools....
UPDATE: The Drudge Report has picked this up so it'll get even MORE exposure.
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Bob said:
I was stationed at the 45th Brigade S-3 office as and Operations and Intelligence Assistant durin
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Mad Mikey said:
Good call Tom!!
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Hi,
I'm Tom, the RiverRat, that started all of this with a brainfart at about 0500 PST today. I was reading the CBS article and looking at the documents when it hit me that the May 19, 72 memo looked like it was New Times Roman Variable which didn't exist in 1972 (especially in the military). I asked a question at www.swiftvets.com and we developed the story within an hour.
I've already spoken to Major Garrett at Fox who says he's hot on the story and of course emailed my conclusions to Poweline et.al.
More power to the new media and the power of the internet.
Tom
|| Posted by Tom RiverRat Mortensen, September 9, 2004 11:06 AM ||Good call Tom!!
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, September 9, 2004 11:12 AM ||I was stationed at the 45th Brigade S-3 office as and Operations and Intelligence Assistant during the period of 1966-Sept 1967 and used a IBM Executive Model C which had varible spacing and a th and nd key....according to some accounts this typewriter didn't come into existance till the early 70's which is false. The Model C was introduced in 1959. I don't wish to claim that the typeface used in the questioned documents were available at that time but variable spacing and th/nd were on IBM models in the mid 60's
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