Good grief, the blogosphere is the ONLY place to find accurate news these days it seems, and it's realer than real-time. The below postings to
allahpundit look devastating. Bush's address is wrong, he hadn't lived there for two years. General Staudt retired a year before the memo was written. Tell me again why I should bother reading a newspaper or watching a tv show? Last comment should make for a fun day tommorrow as well. Betcha' kerry wasn't counting on a scandal with his buds in the media.
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[UPDATE: Readers George Purcell and Joel Fedorko are trying to cross-check Bush's 1972 address. Joel points to a set of military records obtained by USA Today. According to the memo on page 6, Bush had already left the residence at 5000 Longmont Street by January 12, 1971, more than a full year before the May 4, 1972 memo was allegedly written. Other records in the set do provide the Longmont Street for Bush but all are dated either 1968 or 1969. Meanwhile, George points to a list of Bush's former residences on this (anti-Bush) website. Here's what they've got for 1967 to 1972:
1967 -Houston TX 77027 [5525 Briar Dr] Studt *Polk
1968 -Houston TX 77027 [5000 Longmont Apt 8] *Military
1970 -Houston TX [5320 Beverly Hill St Apt 29A ] *Polk
1971 -Houston TX [5320 Beverly Hill St Apt 29A] *Polk
1972 -Houston TX [2910 Westheimer Rd Apt 4] *Polk
1972 -Houston TX [2910 Westheimer Rd Apt 4] *Payroll
According to the website, then, Bush left the 5000 Longmont Street address two years earlier than the memo would have us believe. Can anyone else shed any light on this? Is it possible that the TANG would have had an old address on record for Bush when Killian allegedly wrote the 1972 memo? Or did a forger just fuck up the address? The plot thickens.
UPDATE: In case you're doubting my reasoning in the previous update, check out Spoons's latest. In particular, the information listed at the very end about General Staudt, who seems to have retired a year before the memo referencing in August 1973 was written.
UPDATE: Via Roger, Killian's own son is questioning the authenticity of one of the memos now.
UPDATE: Reader "rod", who works at a New York newspaper, comments:
they are hacking crap out of the nat'l Section as i write and are putting in a by-lined piece about this. Im hearing other papers are too.
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