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September 15, 2004
| Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate, Typist Says

And so it continues. From the New York Times:

HOUSTON, Sept. 14 - The secretary for the squadron commander purported to be the author of now-disputed memorandums questioning President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard said Tuesday that she never typed the documents and believed that they are fakes.

But she also said they accurately reflect the thoughts of the commander, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, and other memorandums she typed for him about Mr. Bush. “The information in them is correct,” the woman, Marian Carr Knox, now 86, said in an interview at her home here. “But I doubt,” she said, pausing, “it’s not anything that I wrote because there are terms in there that are not used by Guards, the format wasn’t the way we did it. It looks like someone may have read the originals and put that together.”

“We did discuss Bush’s conduct and it was a problem Killian was concerned about,” Mrs. Knox said. “I think he was writing the memos so there would be some record that he was aware of what was going on and what he had done.” But, she said, words like “billets,” which appear in the memorandums, were not standard Guard terms.

Mrs. Knox, who was the secretary for the squadron at Ellington Air Force Base from 1957 to 1979, said she recalled Mr. Bush’s case and the criticism of him because his record was so unusual. Mr. Killian had her type memorandums recording the problems, she said, and he kept them in a private file under lock and key. She said she had never voted for Mr. Bush because she disliked his record in office.

Mr. Killian died in 1984; his widow and son have said that they did not find any memorandums among the private effects they cleared from his office after his death. Mr. Killian’s son, Gary, who also served at the squadron and who initially thought that the signatures on the documents matched his father’s, has come to believe they are fakes, and said he doubted Mrs. Knox’s account, though he recalled her fondly.

“She’s a sweet old lady, but she’s wrong and it didn’t happen,” he said. “I always thought well of her, and I know my dad would have also, but she’s a sweet old lady.”



Posted by Todd Castleton at September 15, 2004 04:35 PM | TrackBack
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Fake but accurate. Positively Orwellian.

Posted by: TL [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2004 04:47 PM

That’s the dumbest goddamn thing I’ve ever heard.

As somebody else said on another site, if I ever subscribe to the NYT I wonder if they’ll accept fake but accurate money?

Posted by: Spade [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2004 05:45 PM

MasterSpinMen.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2004 06:05 PM

Looks like they are trying to get confortable with certain concepts, like the idea of an

NOT OUR PARTY BUT ELECTED

President

Posted by: Limpet [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2004 07:13 PM

Hey, let’s not jump to conclusions here. Maybe CBS has a point.

How is this any different than Dateline planting explosives in the gas tanks of pickup trucks rigged to blow up on impact. NBC knew the design was faulty, they were just having a little trouble duplicating an accidental explosion. What’s wrong with that? They KNEW the correct answer after all.

Oh wait, NBC got their a$$ handed to them when somebody blew the whistle. Never mind.

Posted by: ter0 [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2004 07:16 PM

Okay…so if I create a document providing clear evidence that Kim Jong Il and Madelyn Albright got alittle to cozy in North Korea resulting in some big nasty secret being passed in between moans and screams…while everyone screams forgery I could demand Ms. Albright ANSWER THE CHARGE MADAM SECRETARY!!!???

geesh…Mr. Hearst had NOTHING on these people…

Posted by: Wayne Fielder [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2004 10:39 PM

If this story is going to move forward, I say the Republicans must bring this to a Congressional Committee. I want the Republican’s to delve into CBS for putting out a story, and finding ADDITIONAL information as they go along to attempt to prove their forgery!!! Yeah, those documents are fake, but I know I typed some just like it, cuz Mr Killian had that kind of attitude!! Didn’t Killian write a glowing report about Bush a week following one of those document dates??? I think so…..

Posted by: dickmr [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2004 11:55 PM

I used to deal with a Republican Texas Oilman about 5 years ago and he told me then Bush was an irresponsible Texas Playboy in the days.

I’m 49,I KNOW what we high school seniors were thinking back then. NATIONAL GUARD,thats what and you all know why,so does Mr. GW Bush.

He got favorable treatment to get into the guard and probably favorable treatment in the guard,I know for a fact this was COMMON back then.

Jack(Hacksaw) Reynolds,former LA Rams middle linebacker,got favored treatment in the early 70s so he could play ball and do his time getting cups of coffee for an ROTC officer at the U of Tennessee in the offseason,I work with men who “served” with Hacksaw.

It’s just a fact. To me and I think to America,it means nothing. Bush isn’t the irresponsible playboy now and Kerry has liabilities all his own.

But,the secretary lady probably knows what she’s speaking of,IMO.

Posted by: FireballXL5 [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 17, 2004 03:59 PM

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