Ken,

So the former secretary didn't type the memo's but the intent was there.

The 250+ swift boat vets are just a fragment of our imagination, but the 80+
year old secretary, she has wisdom beyond her years.

OK, I am convinced.

-Craig


--- Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091504dnpolnatguard.1185eb4ae.html
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> Former secretary says she didn't type memos
>
> 06:24 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 14, 2004
>
> By PETE SLOVER / The Dallas Morning News
>
> HOUSTON – The former secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel
> who supposedly authored memos critical of President Bush’s Guard service
> said Tuesday that the documents are fake, but that they reflect real
> documents that once existed.
>
> Marian Carr Knox, who worked from 1956 to 1979 at Ellington Air Force
> Base in Houston, said she prided herself on meticulous typing, and the
> memos first disclosed by CBS News last week were not her work.
>
> “These are not real,” she told The Dallas Morning News after examining
> copies of the disputed memos for the first time. “They’re not what I
> typed, and I would have typed them for him.”
>
> Mrs. Knox, 86, who spoke with precise recollection about dates, people
> and events, said she is not a supporter of Mr. Bush, who she deemed
> “unfit for office” and “selected, not elected.”
>
> “I remember very vividly when Bush was there and all the yak-yak that
> was going on about it,” she said.
>
> But, she said, telltale signs of forgery abounded in the four memos,
> which contained the supposed writings of her ex-boss, Lt. Col. Jerry
> Killian, who died in 1984.
>
> She said the typeface on the documents did not match either of the two
> typewriters that she used during her time at the Guard. She identified
> those machines as a mechanical Olympia, which was replaced by an IBM
> Selectric in the early 1970s.
>
> [more at
>
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091504dnpolnatguard.1185eb4ae.html]
>
>   She also said the memos may have been constructed from memory by
> someone who had seen Lt. Col. Killian’s private file but were not
> transcriptions because the language and terminology did not match what
> he would have used.
>
> For instance, she said, the use of the words “billets” and a reference
> to the “administrative officer” of Mr. Bush’s squadron reflect Army
> terminology rather than the Air National Guard. Some news reports
> attribute the CBS reports to a former Army National Guard officer who
> has a longstanding dispute with the Guard and has previously maintained
> that the president’s record was sanitized.
>
> Mrs. Knox also cited stylistic differences in the form of the notes,
> such as the signature on the right side of the document, rather than the
> left, where she would have put it.
>
> ***************************************
>
> Newseek says that "A principal source for CBS's story was Bill Burkett,
> a disgruntled former Guard officer who lives in Baird, Texas, who says
> he was present at Guard headquarters in Austin in 1997, when a top aide
> to the then Governor Bush ordered records sanitized to protect the Boss."
>
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5974040/site/newsweek/
>
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