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Sunday, October 03, 2004

It was Rove after all...
Posted by Jill | 5:01 PM

...or so sayeth the indefatigable and indispensable Paul Lukasiak in his analysis of documents newly released by the White House regarding George W. Bush's National Guard service.

For one thing, one of the documents definitively refutes the notion that a memo using proportionally-spaced fonts could not have been produced in 1972, for here is a document released by the White House showing just such a font.

Lukasiak notes:

The heart and soul of the controversy over the Killian memos was the question of typewriter technology in 1972. Throughout the media, false claims were promulgated regarding the existence of certain type faces, the capability of typewriters to produce “proportionately spaced” documents, and declarations that the Texas Air National Guard would not have had typewriters that could have produced the Killian memos. The latter claim was given broad exposure because an examination of the documents released by the White House in February---a release that the White House claimed represented “all the documents”—showed that not a single Texas Air National Guard document was produced on a typewriter using proportionate spacing.


James Moore, author of Bush's Brain knows Karl Rove's tactics better than anyone, and this little scam is right there in character with bugging his own office and claiming his client's opponents did it, to stealing computers from the Bush campaign's Washington state campaign office the day after Bush blows the first debate and blaming Democrats.

Here's Moore, as quoted at Lukasiak's site:

"I find the timing of the release of this proportionally spaced document to be very curious. The CBS documents were attacked for similar spacing because of an argument that typewriters did not have that capability more than 30 years ago. But this new document clearly proves that to be wrong. And if the White House had already released it in February with the rest of the file, critics might have arrived at different conclusions about the CBS documents. This proves they were potentially real. Karl Rove thinks of everything."

"My suspicions about Rove's involvement in the CBS document controversy arose after the well-coordinated attack on the memos. Critics were ready with their analysis almost before CBS got off the air. And they knew precisely the forensic arguments to make. This didn't happen through simple due diligence. They were tipped in advance. And that was only possible if Rove was involved in the creation and leaking of the documents or if he got them in advance and set up his attack machine. Admittedly, this is a five cushion political bank shot, but if anybody can pull those off, it's Rove."


Lukasiak notes that the Killian memos have never been proven to be forgeries, but since source Bill Burkett lied about where they originated, they have gone down into the annals of fake news that still has pretentions of being real as being such:

With each day that passes, it becomes clearer that either the “Killian memos” are copies of true originals, or were retyped by someone whose purpose was to destroy the credibility of Bill Burkett. Burkett’s credentials as a source of confidential information were well established by USA Today in the late 1990’s, when he was the source for that paper’s series on “ghost soldiers” in the National Guard. Burkett provided USA Today with the proof that the Texas National Guard was receiving federal funding for the training of Guardmen who were not showing up for training, but were being signed in on rosters as if they had attended that training. Burkett subsequently disclosed (and was backed up by numerous witnesses) that he had observed Bush campaign officials in the act of purging Bush’s Texas Air National Guard files, and until the Killian memo controversy, Burkett’s account was considered highly credible.

The questions over the authenticity of the Killian memos has made Bush’s National Guard record a “non-story” for most major media organizations, despite the fact that the documents that have been released under a court order prove that the White House has been lying about what happened during Bush’s last two years in the Armed Forces. Evidence found in Bush’s flight records (when examined against evidence in the payroll records) indicate that he was ordered to perform four days of active duty training in March 1972 with an experienced co-pilot in a “general purpose” training jet (the T033). Either Bush was ordered to perform remedial flight training, or was attempting to qualify for another jet, and had failed to do so. (There is no mention of this training in Bush’s annual “Training Report” that covered this period.)

And evidence found in the “Historical Record of the 147th gives the lie to the White House’s contention that Bush did not resume flying when he returned to Texas after the November 1972 election because the F102 was being phased out and there were not enough jets to go around. The “history” shows that the 147th had a combined total of 18 F102s and TF102s (the training version of the F102) in 1968, and 21 such jets in February 1973. And, in 1973, the 147th had three more T033s in 1973 than it had in 1968 (5 in 1968, 8 in 1973) and that by 1973 the 147th had acquired eight of the F101s---the jet which would eventually replace the 147th’s F102s. Considering that the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron had only 30 pilot slots, there was clearly no shortage of F102s for Bush to fly when he returned to Texas.

Yet these facts have received virtually no attention from the major media which had engaged in a complete feeding frenzy with concern to the “Killian memos”, a “feeding frenzy” that was driven by the questions regarding typewriter technologies in the early 1970s---and which, had the White House not withheld the “proportionately spaced” memo of February 19, 1971 would never have been an issue.

The evidence that literally every major media organization in the United States has been duped is sitting on a Department of Defense website, yet not one of those networks or newspapers has seen fit to report the fact that the White House withheld a key document which disproves the falsehoods that these media outlets promulgated for weeks. CBS has acknowledged that it failed to thoroughly authenticate the Killian memos, yet the same media organizations that have criticized CBS so thoroughly have not owned up to their own reporting of flat out, and now indisputable, lies on the Killian memo story.

Nor has one of these outlets questioned the White House to determine why the “promotion memo” was withheld in February, and why the White House lied about releasing “all the documents” at that time. It is clear that the major media thinks that when CBS makes a mistake, it is a far more important story that the deliberate withholding of documents by the Bush Administration, and lies concerning Bush’s military records being told by the White House.


Lukasiak's site is quite a handful to plow through, but if you want to know the truth about the current occupant of the White House, it's must reading.

The fact of the matter, folks, is that this country is about to re-elect a man who couldn't be bothered finishing his own service, but is all too eager to feed more of today's American young people into the meatgrinder of the middle east, as he prepares for invasions of both Iran and Syria in his second term.

Yet the most appalling aspect of this whole sorry affair is that after 15 years of Karl Rove setups, both the media and the opposition can still be duped by this man. If I can see a pattern, why can't Dan Rather?
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