Reply #17: If Rather is forced to retract this story because the docs are fake,

[amandabeech]

then I hope he tells us how or from whom he got those docs or someone leaks. And I hope that Gen. Hodges will agree to be interviewed.

I wonder whether in fact the docs are paraphrases of what Col. Killian told Gen. Hodges and others, or are paraphrases of memos and orders that Killian actually wrote, but were scrubbed from records when Bush was Gov. of Texas. Someone on Killian's or Hodges' staffs, or maybe one of Killian's buddies might remember what Killian said or wrote, and sent in the new docs in some way that would be difficult to trace in order to stay out of trouble.

Or perhaps Killian had a "day job" where the IBM Executive Typewriter was used and these memos were typed by a secretary there.

Edit: spelling