"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.”

Got those DNC talking points memorized pretty good, doesn't she?

Call me skeptical, but "precise recollection" of a no doubt obscure event from 30+ years ago from an 86 year old?

Neither Killian's widow nor son confirm that Killian felt this way about George Bush. How does the 86-year-old account for that? Of course, we've never heard from the living Killians on CBS News.

And that general who retired in 1972, but kept coming back to pester Killian about Bush? What about that little detail? Was that in the original or was that a "dramatization" or a "re-enactment" of the source material, sort of like when they filed through those wheel rims to get them to explode on camera? (See here: http://walterolson.com/articles/crashtests.html)

Whatever--CBS has staked its claim on the literal truth of the memos we see. If they were recreations they should have said so.

That's going to be part of the next phase. The Microsoft Memos are fake, but the spirit of the memos is true.

Fark a duck...it's 'penumbras' all over again.

That seems pretty unfair to put words in the mouth of a man who died 20 years ago. I don't care if LTC Killian and his secretary enjoyed a Clintonesque relationship, (NOTE: That is hyperbole, do not read in that I am trying to tarnish anyone's reputation that way.) its a poor thing to put words in someone's mouth about how the LTC felt about 1LT Bush. She does NOT have the authority for a valid appeal to authority argument. (Especially in light of the family's already on record comments to the contrary.)

I saw the article before it got avalanched. She does say Killian kept a personal "cover your back" file in a locked drawer; what happened to that is a dead end. He died on base and the (unnamed!) Master Sergeant who would have taken control of his records was found by the DMN reporter but he ain't talking.

But she's damn sure she didn't type those memos and her typewriter was an Olympia with a special superscript th key--they got selectrics in the "early 70's".(Next blogoshperic query just to nail that line of inquiry shut: Did Olympia make any Times-capable machines in that era? In case Killian was feeling feisty and typed that one himself?)

In the first paragraph the report says the CBS memos are "based on real documents" but I recall reading through again and not seeing that contention nailed down at all in the body of the article.

Talk amongst yourselves.

(PrntScrn is my friend, PrntScrn is my friend...)

Isn't it so ironic. The left hurls insult after insult, lie after lie, hate, libel and slander against the right and our President and they simply can't get it to stick.

I think its not a testament so much to their bad organizational skills (which helps), but to the lack of truth to so many of their claims. The "Republican Attack Machine" is code name for having facts and using them. Richard Clarke and co. succumbed to the "Republican Attack Machine", and so have most major critics of the president.

However, the charges from the right and from the SBVT, no matter how derided as 'scurrilous' and 'discredited' and false, they stick. 'Cause they've got truth in them.

Every major attack of the left falls to pieces, and the people aren't going to believe Plan B, although they'll certaintly try to foist it on us.

We're winning the war of ideas, and its clear from the effectiveness of the right vs. the left in political charges and such.

She's the new Bettie Currie!

No surprise about the "Cover your back" file; a military poster on (I think) Roger L. Simon's site mentioned a few days ago that there was such an entity as an "CYA" file that would be kept in a desk drawer; the important things were that (a) this was pretty much a verbal designation; NO file would actually have "CYA" as the subject line (b) CYA memos did not tend towards the self-accusatory; they were accounts of an action someone else had taken which you felt to be dangerous/dubious (c) they were destroyed once their relevance was over. I wish I could remember the OP's name, but go a few days back on Roger Simon and it should be there.

One more thing - Mrs. Knox apparently has forgotten that Bush's birthday was more than two months after the supposed "Get your exam" memo. Well, she can't be expected to remember the birthdays of who-knows-how-many pilots. But it does kind of suggest that she hasn't been paying quite as much attention as she could have.

Not my normal style to beat up on an old lady...but....

Mrs Knox can easily be checked to see if she is blowing smoke or has been extensively "prepped" and coached by Kerry/DNC/Moveon operatives by asking her details of any other officer's OER from 1973 to check her "memory".

What, she only knows details of Bush from 1973!!! Fancy that!!!!

Well.....why should she remember just him? Bush was a nobody back then, another junior officer in a herd of junior officers. What about the others who left early? What conversations does she recollect about those guys, or major TANG events Killian dealt with?

At least the old liberal bag was smart enough not to lie and find herself in a golden years goo-pile.

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