As another of the corroborating experts for its report, CBS and Rather presented an on-air interview with Marcel B. Matley, a San Francisco document examiner. Rather said Matley had corroborated the four Killian memos.But in an interview with The Times, the analyst said he had only judged a May 4, 1972, memo–in which Killian ordered Bush to take his physical-to be authentic.
He said he did not form a judgment on the three other disputed memos because they only included Killian’s initials and he did not have validated samples of the officer’s initials to use for comparison.
A CBS official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the network had two other document experts, who CBS did not identify, examine the documents, which were copies of the originals.
The experts studied the type font or style, spacing and other variables and deemed the memos legitimate, said the official.
If CBS’s evidence is such a (if I may borrow phrase) “slam dunk” why all the cloak-and-dagger nonsense? How about just putting all the cards on the table?
