Bush Document Controversy -- Today's Updates and Links

It's a Fake! Probably.

Published on September 11, 2004 By blogic In Politics

The subtitle -- "it's a fake" -- is a Star Trek (DS9) reference. Probably no one will get it, and I've just outed myself as a geek. Oh well.

Lots of sort-of news this morning, most of it indicating that the Killian documents aren't authentic. There's a fairly good roundup at Slate.

CBS finally produced an expert -- Marcel B. Matley -- who said he thought the records were authentic, but according to the Los Angeles Times, he was only vouching for the document in which Killian ordered Bush to get a physical. He has no opinion on the three other documents, which are the ones damaging to Bush. Oops.

Also in LAT was that the superior to which CBS referred as a corraborator of their story -- Major General Bobby W. Hodges -- now says he doesn't believe the Killian documents are real.

Some of you may remember that Killian complained that he was being pressured to "sugar coat" his report on Bush. The Dallas Morning News reports that the officer reportedly pressuring Killian -- Walter "Buck" Staudt -- left the Texas National Guard a year and a half before the document was allegedly written.

The only news that might be welcomed by CBS is that the very first analysis widely cited as questioning the authenticity of the documents -- Philip D. Bouffard -- said he believes that it would have been possible to create the disputed documents on a typewriter of the Vietnam era. He still thinks they're fake, though.

Comments

Daiwa

on Sep 11, 2004

blogic -

Props to you for your honesty and willingness to face this music head on. Most would just shut up and move on to something else, hoping it would just die down if left alone. (Huh? What documents?)

You have my respect and admiration, if not my agreement in all things.

Cheers,
Daiwa

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