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In reply to the discussion: Dan Rather on G. W. Bush report: ‘We reported a true story—that’s why I’m no longer with CBS News' [View all]grok
(550 posts)However plausibility was diminished.
Setting aside for the moment the likelihood that Bush shirked his responsibilities and just look at the facts.
This document was created in a typeset and letter spacing that became far far far more common 20 years later in the personal computer age than then. While true that typewriters existed at the time that could do other than mono-space, they were rare and more conducive to existing in a precision graphics typesetting environment than an ordinary office. Not to mention broke down far too much to be very practical. As far as I know, nobody has come close to duplicating the faxed document with equipment available then. And believe me, people have tried REALLY REALLY hard.
On the other-hand it takes only a few minutes using only Microsoft Word to eerily match the faxed document.
Here was the smoking gun from wiki..

Wiki discussion....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
Of course if we had the original, which we don't, it would be a different case. The original alone would prove it.