Lord Kerry decries the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban. Back in the early '90s, he opposed the individual's right to secure messages through encryption, and favored giving the FBI and the Department of Justice ability unlock private encryption codes. For those who see the Patriot Act as a threat to civil liberty, imagine what it would be in a Kerry administration, an administration that by all indications will change the war on terror into a domestic law enforcement issue as early as possible.
Then again, maybe they aren't forged. According to Time Magazine article, "The X Files Of Lt. Bush," with a link I couldn't post:
"But Bill Glennon, a technology consultant in New York City who worked for IBM repairing typewriters from 1973 to 1985, says those experts "are full of crap. They just don't know." Glennon says there were IBM machines capable of producing the spacing, and a customized key — the likes of which he says were not unusual — could have created the superscript th."
Posted by: pete | September 12, 2004 at 10:44 PM
Not that we're exactly on topic here, but if that's true, Bill Glennon should have no problem identifying the list of typewriter models that would produce those questionable memos, and he should also be able to produce some side by side comparison that are as convincing as the Microsoft Word comparisons floating around the web today.
Posted by: Tom Bowler | September 13, 2004 at 06:32 AM