Traditional Media Examining Authenticity of Documents

Good to see ABCnews and the Washington Post examining the story. Good to see this won't be buried and definitely nice to see traditional media dealing with a story damaging to it. Of course, it would be next to impossible to bury this one. I wonder when CBS will release the name of the experts who vetted the docs. The more this story builds the more CBS will look bad if they don't release more info.

Washington Post:

Experts consulted by a range of news organizations pointed typographical and formatting questions about four documents as they considered the possibility that they were forged. The widow of the National Guard officer whose signature is on the bottom of the documents also disputed their authenticity.

ABCNews:

"The wording in these documents is very suspect to me," she told ABC News Radio in an exclusive phone interview from her Texas home. She added that she "just can't believe these are his words."

First reported by CBS's 60 Minutes, the memos allegedly were found in Killian's personal files. But his family members say they doubt he ever made such documents, let alone kept them.

Connell said Killian did not type, and though he did take notes, they were usually on scraps of paper. "He was a person who did not take copious notes," she said. "He carried everything in his mind."

We don't know where the documents come from," he said, adding, "They didn't come from any family member."

Connell said her late husband would be "turning over in his grave to know that a document such as this would be used against a fellow guardsman," and she is "sick" and "angry" that his name is "being battled back and forth on television."