Remember how CBS "forged" the documents?
Yeah, they weren't forgeries.
The web site for my book, truthandduty.com, offers many newly found documents from the archives at Texas National Guard headquarters at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas, which clearly display the characteristics that conservative bloggers said were impossible on early 1970s-era typewriters.These internal memos from the late '60s and early '70s, which researcher Steve Jones obtained, contain proportional spacing, which critics of the memos claim was "not invented" until much later. We also now have documents that were laid out in formats very similar to the Killian memos. The verbiage is very much the same, as are the abbreviations, the right-hand signature blocks, and other elements that came under fire immediately after our story aired in September 2004.
Bloggers and many reporters in the mainstream media used these criticisms as supposed "proof" that the Killian documents were "obviously forged." They were wrong, but our best efforts at CBS to get people to slow down and realize that all of these characteristics were commonly available at the time the memos were purportedly written were knocked aside. Conservative critics just kept repeating mistakes until they'd said this long enough and loudly enough that truth no longer mattered.
So now either all of the documents they've found in the past 16 months in the actual Texas National Guard headquarters are also "forgeries," or that argument is no longer operative. The quote above comes from Mary Mapes, producer of the CBS story in question, who was fired for not vetting the same documents that have never been discredited (except for this silly typography stuff that is now, itself, discredited). Read the whole interview; it may make you want to read the book.