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"We are told [the documents] were taken from Lieutenant Colonel Killian’s personal files...We consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic."[1] Dan Rather, September 8

Contents 1 FIRE's political orientation 2 Work area 3 Footnotes 3.1 Statements of the CBS document examiners 4 See also 5 References

[edit] FIRE's political orientation

FIRE has no stated political affiliation.

FIRE has received both praise and support from conservative commentators, including in David Horowitz's Front Page Magazine and the Heritage Foundation's Townhall.com. (For example, Front Page Magazine featured a story on FIRE's cooperation with the Alliance Defense Fund^[2] and conservative columnist Mike S. Adams has approvingly referred to "the hard work of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education"^[3]. FIRE cites over 20 columns by Adams on its own website^[4] and is itself listed as a contributor of eight columns to Front Page Magazine^[5]) It has received funding from conservative sources such as the John Templeton Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and others.^[6]

An article^[7] by the Center for Media and Democracy described FIRE as a "conservative" organization that shares many of the goals of David Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom, along with Young America's Foundation, the self-proclaimed "principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement"^[8], and the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), a group whose founders include^[9] Lynne Cheney and Senator Joseph Lieberman. Charles Mitchell, then a FIRE program officer and currently an ACTA program director^[10] and blogger^[11], reacted strongly to the suggestion that FIRE is a "conservative" group, and listed a number of cases in which FIRE undertook a defense of professors or students with left-wing views.^[12]

FIRE has frequently^[13] aligned itself with or cited the work of the Alliance Defense Fund, whose stated purpose is "to aggressively defend religious liberty"^[14] and whose issues also include "guarding the sanctity of human life" and "protecting traditional family values"^[15]. As noted above, FIRE's former president David French stepped down to join the ADF.

Since April of 2006^[16], French has also been a regular contributor to Phi Beta Cons, a blog hosted on the website of the prominent conservative magazine National Review. FIRE's former CEO, Thor Halvorssen, is a member of ACTA's Society of Fellows.^[17]

FIRE's current president identifies himself as a Democrat and asserts that "accusations of conservatism used to hurt [his] feelings."^[18]

The memos were "thoroughly investigated by independent experts, and we are convinced of their authenticity",[19]; the documents "were provided by unimpeachable sources."[20] CBS News statement, September 9, 2004

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The documents are "backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but by sources familiar with their content."[21] "If any definitive evidence to the contrary of our story is found, we will report it. So far, there is none."[22][23] CBS News and Dan Rather, September 10, 2004

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"the documents 'could have been prepared on an IBM Selectric Composer Typewriter, available at the time,'.[24] Dan Rather, CBS Evening News, September 11

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"CBS 'talked to handwriting and document analysts and other experts who strongly insist the documents could have been created in the 70s,'"[25] Dan Rather, September 13

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"If I knew then what I know now – I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question,"[26] Dan Rather, CBS Evening News, September 20

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"Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret."[26][27] Andrew Heyward, CBS News President, September 20

[edit] Work area

CBS goalposts: September 8: September 9: Sept 10: September 11: Sept 13: September 15: Emily Will was publicly stating that she had told CBS that she had doubts about both the production of the memos and the handwriting prior to the segment, Linda James stated that the memos were of "very poor quality" and that she did not authenticate them,[28] telling ABC News, "I did not authenticate anything and I don't want it understood that I did."[29] 60 Minutes Wednesday: Will and James "misrepresented" their role in the authentication of the documents and had played only a small part in the process.[30] CBS News: Matley had only authenticated the signatures.[31] Matley: I only verified that the signatures were "from the same source," not that they were authentically Killian's: "When I saw the documents, I could not verify the documents were authentic or inauthentic. I could only verify that the signatures came from the same source," Matley said. "I could not authenticate the documents themselves. But at the same time, there was nothing to tell me that they were not authentic."[28] Marian Carr Knox: memos are "fake", though content is accurate.[32] September 20: Rather: "if I knew then what I know now – I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question,"[26] September 22: Andrew Heyward, President, CBS News: "Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret."[26][27]

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Documents were not authenticated by CBS: Marcel Matley: "Because the memos were copies, Matley said in a recent interview, "there's no way that I, as a document expert, can authenticate them."[33][34] Told Rather "he could not authenticate the documents due to the fact that they were poor quality copies."[35] Emily Will: doubts about both the production of the memos and the handwriting,[36], noted discrepancies in the signatures, had questions about the letterhead, the proportional spacing of the font, the superscripted "th" and the improper formatting of the date. Requested other documents to use for comparison.[37] Linda James: "I did not authenticate anything and I don't want it understood that I did."[38] "unable to reach a conclusion about the signature", noted superscripted "th" was not in common use, recalled telling CBS, "the two memos she looked at 'had problems,'"[37][39] stated that the memos were of "very poor quality" and that she did not authenticate them,[28] Boccardi and Thornburgh: Mapes said the documents were authenticated, when in fact she had found only one expert to vouch for only one signature in the memo."[40], Rather's assertion on September 8 that "the material" had been authenticated is without factual support.[41] Documents are Forgeries: Peter Tytell: "In summary, Tytell concluded that the Killian documents were generated on a computer."[42] Thomas Phinney:"The preponderance of evidence against the authenticity of the memos is incredibly high."[43] Joseph Newcomer: "[t]hese documents are modern forgeries."[44][45] Bill Flynn,"one of country's top authorities on document authentication": "The cumulative evidence that's available … indicates that these documents were produced on a computer, not a typewriter."[46] Sandra Ramsey Lines:"'I'm virtually certain these were computer generated,'" [47] "Could have been produced by available technology": Bill Glennon Richard Katz Philip Bouffard, "could have been produced," but also said "said he had suspicions as well. "I found nothing like this in any of my typewriter specimens," said Dr. Bouffard, a Democrat. He also said the fonts were "certainly consistent with what I see in Times Roman," the commonly used Microsoft Word font."[48] The title of the Boston Globe article "Authenticity Backed..." was repudiated by the newspaper on September 15: "Because of an editing error, the headline on a Page One story Saturday on whether documents released by CBS News about President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service are genuine ("Authenticity backed on Bush documents") did not accurately reflect the content of the story. The story quoted one analyst saying that the documents could have been produced on typewriters available in the early 1970s, but the analyst did not vouch for the authenticity of the documents. A second analyst quoted in the story said he doubts the documents are authentic." Authentic, documents written by the same person, signatures match Killian's James Pierce: "the balance of the Jerry B. Killian signatures appearing on the photocopied questioned documents are consistent and in basic agreement," "the documents in question are authentic."[49] Also: could not be sure if the documents had been altered because he was reviewing copies, not original documents.[50]

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However, within CBS, Josh Howard spoke at length on the telephone with typewriter expert Peter Tytell. Howard later told the Panel that the discussion was, "an 'unsettling event' that shook his belief in the authenticity of the documents." Producer Mapes dismissed Tytell's concerns.^[51]

CBS reported on September 9 that Killian's son, Gary Killian, questioned one of the memos but stated that others "appeared legitimate" and characterized the collection as "a mixture of truth and fiction".^[52]

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] Statements of the CBS document examiners

• Marcel B. Matley, September 14, 2004
• James J. Pierce, September 14, 2004
• Bill Glennon, September 13, 2004
• Richard Katz, September 13, 2004

Yom Tov (alt. Yom Tob) of Joigny, also denoted of York (died 1190) was a French-born English rabbi and liturgical poet. He died in the massacre of the Jews of York in 1190. A Hebrew language hymn attributed to him, transliterated "Omnam Kayn" or "Omnam Ken" is still recited in all Ashkenazi synagogues each year on the evening of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

At York on the night of March 16, 1190, (the day of the Jewish feast of Shabbat ha-Gadol, the shabbat before Passover, March 17, 1190), the Jews of York sought refuge in the Castle of York from a mob. They were alarmed by massacres of other Jewish communities in the preceding weeks, and by the setting on fire of several of their houses by the anti-Jewish rioting in the wake of religious fervor during crusaders' preparations for the Third Crusade against the Saracens, led by Richard I of England. The Jewish leader Josce asked the warden of York Castle to receive them with their wives and children, and they were accepted into Clifford's Tower. However, the tower was besieged by the mob of crusaders, demanding that the Jews convert to Christianity and be baptized.

Trapped in the castle, the Jews were advised by Rabbi Yomtob of Joigney to kill themselves rather than convert; Josce began the self-immolation by slaying his wife Anna and his two children, and then was killed by Yomtob. The father of each family killed his wife and children, and then Yomtob stabbed the men before killing himself. The handful of Jews who did not kill themselves surrendered to the crusaders at daybreak on March 17, leaving the castle on a promise that they would not be harmed; they were also killed. In the aftermath the wooden tower was burnt down.

[edit] See also

• History of the Jews in England
• Yom Kippur

[edit] References

• Encyclopaedia Judaica, articles Omnam Kayn and Yom Tov of Joigny
• Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, article Omnam Kayn
• Service of the Synagogue: Day of Atonement, Part 1 Evening Service; pub. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., p.38