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	Killian documents - dKosopedia
		The memos, supposedly written in 1972 and 1973, were obtained by CBS News producer Mary Mapes and Michael Smith, a freelance journalist from Texas who was collaborating with Mapes, from Lt. Col.
		On September 10, a CBS memo reiterated the company's confidence in the authenticity of the documents, which it said were "backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but by sources familiar with their content" and insisted that no internal investigation would take place.
		Two blogs argued that the Killian memos display kerning, a sophisticated character spacing that is ubiquitous with word-processing documents and uncommon in typewriters in 1972.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Killian_documents (9249 words)

	Was Dan Duped?
		Killian's widow (he died in 1984) and son say he never kept notes and call the memos a farce.
		"Killian says [in his memo) Col. Buck Staudt, the man in charge of the Texas Air National Guard, is putting pressure on to 'sugarcoat' an evaluation of Lt. Bush." But according to the Dallas Morning News, Staudt was discharged from the Guard and gone 18 months before Killian's memo was written.
		Killian's widow says her late husband was an admirer of young George.
	www.theamericancause.org /patwasdanduped.htm (751 words)

	Late officer's son questions memos - Politics - MSNBC.com
		DALLAS - The authenticity of newly unearthed memos stating that George W. Bush failed to meet standards of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War was questioned Thursday by the son of the late officer who reportedly wrote the memos.
		Gary Killian, who served in the Guard with his father and retired as a captain in 1991, said one of the memos, signed by his father, appeared legitimate.
		Gary Killian said his father wasn’t in the habit of bringing his work home with him, and that the documents didn’t come from the family.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5956461 (513 words)

	WAS THE “KILLIAN MEMO SCANDAL” A SET UP
		The proportionately spaced “promotion memo” in question was among those documents released under FOIA to at least two researchers in 2000, including a reporter from a major media organization, and Marty Heldt, an independent researcher from Iowa.
		Indeed, (and despite the statements of the talking heads on television) the Killian memos have never been shown to be forgeries, and the only reason that CBS retracted its story was because it found out that the source of the documents had lied about where they originated.
		Fighter Interceptor Squadrons, confirms a statement found in the memos concerning recruitment of new pilots---a statement that was unsupported by documentary evidence at the time the Killian memos were released.
	www.glcq.com /set_up.htm (1523 words)

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		Shows ear marking such as lower case “L” and “a.” in the Killian memos are not present in the Word default font but are present in a typewriter.
		Refers to instances where the Killian memos exhibit appear to have printed using a mechanical device which would produce variations such as darkness and smudging and inconsistencies in how characters appear that are characteristic of typewriters.
		Shows where the Killian memos have vertical alignment variations as would be likely with a mechanical device but impossible with a laser printer.
	www.javaskyline.com /analysis/killianfont.html (2400 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Between September 2004 and December 2005, I examined the "Killian Memos" twice.
		In brief, the memos are almost certainly typed.
		If they are not authentic, Killian did not write them, so if they are not authentic, they should not be called "Killian memos." Since I have seen no evidence proving they are authentic, I believe this name is misleading.
	imrl.usu.edu /bush_memo_study/index.htm (341 words)

	OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
		Killian to "sugar coat" the Bush military record had left the Texas Air National Guard a year and a half before the memo was supposedly written.
		Killian's widow adds that her late husband kept no personal files from his Guard duty, notes that CBS won't reveal its source, and says the memos are bogus.
		If it turns out that the Killian memos are indeed forgeries, the Internet will have played an invaluable role in exposing the fraud much faster than the 18 months Mr.
	opinionjournal.com /diary/?id=110005611 (1119 words)

	WorldNetDaily: CBS News chief defends memos
		Among the assertions "60 Minutes II" derived from the documents – four memos by Bush's late squadron commander Col. Jerry Killian – were that the commander was pressed to "sugar coat" a performance evaluation for Bush and that the future president did not follow an order to report for a physical.
		Genelius said she could not clarify Heyward's statement that the memos are "accurate," because she had not seen the Evening News broadcast and was not familiar with the statement.
		One of the Killian memos is an official order to Bush to report for a physical, which never was carried out.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40471 (1986 words)

	CBS Against the World - Memos, memos, memos :: CBS Memos :: bLogicus
		Killian, had the only typewriter in Texas in 1973 using a prototype version of the default letter writing program of Microsoft Word, complete with the tiny little superscript thingy that automatically changes July 4th to July 4th.
		San Jose Mercury: The man named in a disputed memo as exerting pressure to "sugar coat" President Bush's military record left the Texas Air National Guard a year and a half before the memo was supposedly written, his own service record shows.
		Finally, if you are not convinced Peter Duncan has a compelling analysis showing the similarity between the Killian Memos and a MS Word Document and the lack of similarity between the Memos and type writers available during the early 1970s.
	www.blogicus.com /archives/cbs_against_the_world_memos_memos_memos.php (6317 words)

	GOP Activist Source Of Allegedly Forged Killian Memos? \| The Agonist
		Knox says the information in the four memos that CBS obtained is very familiar, but she doesn't believe the memos are authentic.
		She addressed one memo, and a reference to retired Gen. Staudt pushing for a positive officer training report on Lt. Bush.
		She also talked about another memo which she doesn't believe is authentic -- but she says the facts behind it are very real.
	scoop.agonist.org /story/2004/9/21/132823/041 (3224 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn't Authenticate Papers
		The analysis shows that half a dozen Killian memos released earlier by the military were written with a standard typewriter using different formatting techniques from those characteristic of computer-generated documents.
		One CBS memo cites pressure allegedly being put on Killian by "Staudt," a reference to Col. Walter B. "Buck" Staudt, one of Bush's early commanders.
		In the CBS memos, the "Lt Colonel" is on the next line, sometimes with a period but without the customary reference to TexANG, for Texas Air National Guard.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A18982-2004Sep13?language=printer (1508 words)

	Media Matters - Trees everywhere, forest nowhere in sight: Media ignores witnesses who confirm memo content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As media attention has fixated on the authenticity of controversial memos questioning President George W. Bush's service in the National Guard (first aired by CBS News), three firsthand witnesses who doubt the authenticity of the memos have also confirmed that the content of the memos is accurate.
		The 86-year-old former secretary to Colonel Killian says she typed all of his documents at the time, that the CBS documents are fake, but that they do reflect some of his viewpoints back then.
		That's exactly what Colonel Killian's former secretary told ABC News today saying she believes the documents are fake but Peter they do reflect some of what her boss thought of Lieutenant Bush at the time.
	mediamatters.org /items/200409150007 (3659 words)

	CBSBushMemos
		By all accounts, Killian was meticulous about writing exactly this sort of memo and then saving it away as a journal record in case of any questions up the road.
		Now, some people have noted that the poor quality of the memos made font identification a little problematic, but that hasn't stopped some supposed typography experts from proclaiming firmly that the CYA memo was morally, ethic'lly, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably created with Word Times New Roman.
		Also if the memos were created at a law firm, that might explain where they came from -- the memos that Killian's secretary had type up and kept on base were all evidently trashed or destroyed at some point.
	aheckofa.com /FoolMeOnce/CBSBushMemos.html (10513 words)

	USNews.com: U.S. News Bulletin: CBS' Own Experts Warned Network Purported Killian Memos May Not Be Authentic (9/15/04)
		Killian's Former Secretary Says CBS Memos Were Forged, But Reflect Killian's Opinion Of Bush.
		They're not what I typed, and I would have typed them for him.'" Knox did say, however, that the content of the memos is accurate in that it reflects Killian's opinion of Bush at the time and her own recollection of then-young lieutenant.
		The New York Times notes Knox is not a supporter of the President's, and "said she had never voted for Mr.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/politics/bulletin/archive/bull040915e.htm (532 words)

	CBS Names Memo Probe Panel - CBS News
		The piece also featured four documents purported to be memos written by one of Mr.
		The purported memos appeared to answer longstanding questions about a period of Mr.
		CBS said it approached Burkett initially about the memos purportedly written by Killian.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/09/06/politics/main641481.shtml (1326 words)

	BeldarBlog: Why does USA Today have two more purported Killian memos than CBS News has revealed?
		The June 24, 1973, memo has the same centered, mock-letterhead address, that we see, for example, on the May 4, 1972, and August 1, 1972, memos from the CBS News website.
		The June 24, 1973, memo from the USA Today.pdf file appears to use a small-caps font for the "ST" after the numeral "1" in its subject line.
		Finally, while one may (depending on organizational culture) admit to mistakes, even in a CYA memo, one really should not announce plans to break regulations, especially in a CYA memo which would come into play only when you were already in at least some trouble.
	beldar.blogs.com /beldarblog/2004/09/rasupthsupergat_1.html (9285 words)

	The Smoking Gun on Forged Killian Memos: UPDATE to Powerline Blog's "61st Minute" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Several have pointed out that the Executive line of IBM typewriters did have proportionally spaced fonts, although no reader has found the font used in the memos to be a familiar one or thought that the an IBM Executive was likely to have been used by the National Guard in the early 1970's.
		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.
		I earler noted the apparent unfamiliarity of the memo writer with the typical use of military acronyms (especially Air Force specific usage), how things such as unit designators and even rank were typically abbreviated, and the memo writer's untypical formatting of an Air Force unit commander's signature block.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1211075/posts (2910 words)

	CJR January/February 2005: Blog-Gate
		The memos that were circulated online were digitized, scanned, faxed, and copied who knows how many times from an unknown original source.
		Hodges’s doubts about the memo rest mainly on military terminology, and he has a list of twenty-one things wrong with the terms used in the CBS documents.
		The Killian memos seem to have grown out of battles that began long before last September.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2005/1/pein-blog.asp (3052 words)

	memos - Webled.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		[ All memos were completely updated on May 13, 2005 ]...
		What we know from the memos can be ]...
		[ and the selected memos dumped to tape(s), you may purge the memos from ]...
	www.webled.com /memos.htm (324 words)

	Rather Concedes Papers Are Suspect (washingtonpost.com)
		Rather spoke after interviewing the secretary to Bush's former squadron commander, who told him that the memos attributed to her late boss are fake -- but that they reflect the commander's belief that Bush was receiving preferential treatment to escape some of his Guard commitments.
		The former secretary, Marian Carr Knox, is the latest person to raise questions about the "60 Minutes" story, which Rather and top CBS officials still defend while vowing to investigate mounting questions about whether the 30-year-old documents used in the story were part of a hoax.
		Rather said he was "relieved and pleased" by Knox's comments that the disputed memos reflected Killian's view of the favorable treatment that Bush received in the military unit.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A24633-2004Sep15.html (875 words)

	Killian documents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The documents were presented as authentic in a 60 Minutes Wednesday broadcast aired by CBS on September 8, 2004, during the 2004 US presidential campaign, but had not been properly authenticated by CBS and were subsequently characterized as likely forgeries by a number of expert forensic document examiners (see: Killian documents authenticity issues).
		A note that Killian had grounded Bush from flying due to "failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards," and for failure to submit to the physical examination as ordered.
		Dan Rather continues to stand by the story, and in subsequent interviews has articulated that he believes that even if the documents are false, he believes that the story is true.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Killian_memos (6530 words)

	Media Matters - Forgery feeding frenzy: Media falling afoul of the facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Meanwhile, in response to questions raised about the veracity of the memos, CBS News released a statement on September 9 defending their authenticity.
		Several media outlets and conservative pundits have suggested that the apostrophes used in the CBS memos add credibility to the charge that the documents are forged.
		So this article spends forever debunking the claim that the memos are, in fact, real rather than forged and then closes by saying the (real) documents could easily be a Rove plot...
	mediamatters.org /items/200409100010 (4131 words)

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