So were those (in)famous CBS documents forgeries? Well, yeah, duh. Here‘s another club with which to beat that dead horse:

The selected memo is that dated May 4, 1972, wherein the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian orders 1st Lt. Bush to report for a flight physical not later than May 14. This memo [...] is posited as a direct order to 1st Lt. Bush, mailed to his (wrong) home address. [However,] for the weekend that 1st Lt. Bush was supposedly ordered to report for his physical, May 13-14, 1972, the Ellington Air Guard Base was closed. It was Mother’s Day. Except for emergencies, Air Guard units never drilled on Mother’s Day…

If George Bush showed up at the clinic that weekend, he would have had to get the key from the gate guard.

The drill weekend for May 1972 was the following weekend, May 20-21. A survey of the pay and flight records of several of the Texas Air Guard members of that period shows no activity for May 13-14, but drill pay vouchers and flights for May 20-21. Guard flight physicals were normally conducted on the drill weekends, because that is the only time all the required clinic personnel were on hand to complete lab work and flight surgeon consultations mandated for aircrew. Does anyone think that Jerry Killian, squadron commander and one of the drill-schedule planners would not know on May 4 that the clinic was closed the next weekend?

I think it’s fairly clear this issue is settled. The only people who still maintain the documents might be authentic probably think they were dictated by Hitler’s brain from inside his Mossad jar, and hand-set in lead type by JFK himself just within the boundaries of Area 51.

Thanks to PowerLine for the pointer.