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Originally Posted by Whar
CBS had these documents for weeks. They submitted them to type-writer experts and hand-writing experts. They passed muster. They have sources, from the time period, that state the documents are geniune. They have Maj Gen Hodges, Killians commanding officer, stating that the documents contain the same information that Killian and verbally communicated to him.
While I believe the documents could be fakes I think it is remote. First lets consider the physical. Modern printers are almost all laser printers. A laser print makes no mark on the page except the ink. A type-writer strikes the page to leave the ink mark. I believe I could tell the difference between a typed page and a laser printed page. I am certain a moderately competent expert could tell you that without caring about the fancy fonts.
Therefore the document had to be made on a printer that would simulate the strike of a type-writer. A Dot Matrix printer I am certain would also leave tell tale signs as well. So now our forger has to be bright enough to buy a fancy electronic type writer to make his forgery, yet stupid enough to leave in all the fancy font settings. (And of course stupid enough not to get an old type writer to make his forgeries on.)
Further the experts CBS used have to be stupid enough not to notice in the weeks they had the documents these inconsistancy which people examining the documents on the internet noticed in about a day.
It just does not seem to reasonable. If CBS reported on forgeries it would be the Mother of All Journalistic Fuckup! They know this and vetted the documents.
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Re: paragraph 1:
CBS is defending the documents (last I read anyway) by saying people have told them the documents are consistent with what the colonel told them during that time, IE hearsay. Other people, including the colonel's wife and son, say he thought highly of Bush, and did not keep private files or notes such as these documents. And CBS has yet to say how they got the documents, so we don't know they had them for weeks. If they thought it was real, it is highly unlikely they would sit on something that hot for very long. My guess is they trusted the source enough that they didn't check thoroughly, and got burned.
Re: rest of post:
My understanding is these are copies, not originals, so there would be no impressions from the typewriter keys.