WaPo's Jen Rubin: The Scandal Is MSNBC... ***Barf Alert**

[MADem]

30. You haven't been following the story, clearly.

The journal is HAND WRITTEN.

You do know it's possible for a forensic examiner to determine when something was written? They may not be able to get it down to a date-time grouping, but they can tell if something has been recently written or is older.

There's an entire subset of forensics devoted solely to document examination.

Here's one professional organization's website:

http://www.swafde.org/faq.html

And here's how they figure out when something was written:

Two new methods of determining the relative age of ballpoint inks has recently come to the forefront in forensic-document examination. Studies have shown that different inks have different drying times. The new method for analyzing the drying time of ink is done by chemical analysis. Unfortunately, this is a destructive process.

These new developments are extremely important when examining ledger or medical-record entries. It has been established that the longer ink has been on a sheet of paper, the slower it will dissolve in the various solvents used to analyze them. It is now possible to identify the age of ink to within a six-month period. This new process of dating the age of inks has had dramatic impact on the examination and detection of backdated documents. Many malpractice cases have been won due to the analysis of ink on questioned medical records.

http://www.evidencemagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267