Interesting, I wonder how things will pan out?

Oh My! You mean Kerry has liars supporting him?
I thought it was only the Right wing.
Crap that is something no intel person would fall for. the typewriters the military used back then were hardly likely to do superscript.
Let alone the average clerk being likely to go to the effort.
I call BS!

Updated 1:37 PM EST Liberal blogger Daily Kos argues that the records cannot be Microsoft Word documents, diving into Word minutia that is way beyond me.

That is very interesting. I wonder if there is a PDF of original somewhere?

In the end, the real issue isn't what Bush did or didn't do. Kerry has been caught misrepresenting his service already, and we were told that it wasn't pertinent, and that we need to focus on the "real issues". Now the DNC itself has issued an action alert mirroring the accusations of the smear 527, "Texans for Truth".

This is so utterly, insanely hypocritical that I am speechless. Bush had connections to people who had loose connections to Swift Boat Vets, and it was some great sin. Now people associated with Kerry start a 527, funded by MoveOn, and whose propaganda is relayed by official DNC memos... and it is supposedly okay. I don't get it.

There seem to be a number of forensic document experts who, on initial review of non-original documents, are skeptical of the source documents' authenticity. Far as I know, CBS has not named their vetting experts and none have come forward. Original documents have not been made available, either. Daily Kos has made the case that the typography of the copies published "could" have been produced with typewriters in 1973, based on claims by third parties that it was possible, but that doesn't prove they are genuine, as even they admit. Maybe someone from IBM will make some official clarification of what their machines could or couldn't do then. Given that the machines which are claimed to have been capable of such typography were considered "very" expensive at the time, the likelihood of TANG having one would seem remote. I routinely used an IBM Selectric up through 1971 and it didn't have the ability to do superscripts. When I was in the Navy from 1978 through 1980, IBM Selectrics were common, but in looking through my Navy records (still have them, don't ask me why) I could find no superscripts anywhere, even where nomials were used.

I'm willing to let this play out further, but my money is still on them being bogus.

Cheers,
Daiwa

Updated 10:47 PM EST
CBS News has finally named an outside "document and handwriting examiner" who says he believes the documents are real: Marcel Matley. He also warns against coming to conclusions based on photocopies, fascmiles, mimeographs, or camera obscura images. Of course, if CBS would just make the records more available to outside experts, they could end this confusion quickly.

Updated 8:45 AM EST
A friend of mine pointed out the excellent Killian document coverage by the blog The Shape of Days. It has lots of photos of Killian signatures, although with a great comparison of typewriter text and the actual document... I promise, this isn't just the same analysis you've seen everywhere else... well, unless you have.

Wow. Not only is the Media trying to pass off Word documents as memos from the seventies, but now they're twisting the words of others in an attempt to trick people into thinking they're authentic. I'm starting to believe that they're not simply incompetent, but actually evil.