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CBS News: Digging Themselves In Deeper
3:59 am, 9/14/04
CBS News: Digging Themselves In Deeper

You may remember this from the CBS Evening News' defense of the "memos" on Friday:
Document and handwriting examiner Marcel Matley analyzed the documents for CBS News. He says he believes they are real, but is concerned about exactly what is being examined by some of the people questioning the documents. Because deterioration occurs each time a document is reproduced and the documents being analyzed outside of CBS have been photocopied, faxed, scanned and downloaded and are far removed from the documents CBS started with which were also photocopies....Matley finds the signatures to be some of the most compelling evidence.
They then showed Matley pointing at the signatures and saying "we can conclude they are his signatures". Rather comes straight out and says that Matley believes they are real, and then seems to imply that because they are photocopied, nobody else should try to determine if they're real or not.

I don't know what Matley told CBS, but as Kevin points out, that doesn't appear to be what he told the Washington Post.
The lead expert retained by CBS News to examine disputed memos from President Bush's former squadron commander in the National Guard said yesterday that he examined only the late officer's signature and made no attempt to authenticate the documents themselves.

"There's no way that I, as a document expert, can authenticate them," Marcel Matley said in a telephone interview from San Francisco. The main reason, he said, is that they are "copies" that are "far removed" from the originals.
According to Matley in the WaPo, he can't say the documents are real because they are copies. The Washington Post has previously reported that Matley said a "60 Minutes" executive had told him not to give interviews. Can't imagine why.
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