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September 14, 2004
Killian's Secretary: I Didn't Type Those MemosShe says they're fake, but claims that "similar memos" existed at one time. On the other hand, she's a political partisan of the sort that I'm sure Dan Rather would never trust: 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.” We seem to be heading towards that predicted denouement-- an admission that the memos themselves are fake, but that they were "meticulously reconstructed by memory" from real documents that Evil Republican Operatives destroyed. UPDATE: Confirmation of prediction! I wasn't able to access the article in question when I wrote the above (in fact, I still haven't, since the site looks down due to too much traffic), but the fine folks at NRO's The Corner have read the whole thing: "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." I'm not going to say a word. Not a word. All right, two words: Plan Fucking B. This ridiculous "Plan B" defense, however, is similar to what I expect we will soon be hearing: Someone really saw these documents, and they said almost exactly what the forgeries say, only the witness in question didn't take the documents or make copies of them. Update: NPR's Mara Liason just pitched Plan B on Brit Hume, just to see if it would fly. I have generally liked Mara, but she just disgusted me. No matter how thoroughly refuted these forgeries are, liberals like herself are still determined to treat the allegations contained in them as true. Now Drudge: "I did not type these particular memos. I typed memos like these," Knox told the DRUDGE REPORT from her home in Houston. Ahem. No comment. Okay, one word: Plan Fucking B. It seems very curious that this woman's "recollections" just happened to show up on forged documents. | include '../skins/1/3c-right-alt.php'; ?> |