[IP] Bush memo controversey
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From: "Glenn S. Tenney CISSP CISM" <glenn_ip@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 29, 2004 12:29:48 PM EDT
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Subject: Re: [IP] Bush memo controversey
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Toward Identifying the Font Used in the Bush Memos
A Research Project Report
David E. Hailey, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director
Interactive Media Research Laboratory
ABSTRACT
The following evidence from a forensic examination of the Bush memos
indicates that they were typed on a typewriter:
1. The specific font used is from a typewriter family in common use
since
1905 and a typewriter capable of producing the spacing has been
available
since 1944.
2. The characters .e,. .t,. .s,. and .a. show indications of physical
damage
and/or wear consistent with a well used typewriter.
3. The characters that are seldom used show no signs of damage or wear.
4. The quality of individual characters is inconsistent throughout the
memos
beyond expectations from photocopying and/or digitizing but quality is
consistent with worn platen and variations in paper quality.
5. Overlapping characters occasionally indicate paper deformation
consistent
with hammered impressions.
6. Critical indicators of digital production or cut and paste
production are
missing.
Implications are that there is nothing in this evidence that would
indicate
the memos are inauthentic. Furthermore, from the point of view of the
physical evidence in the documents (excluding any rhetorical evidence or
external evidence, which is not examined in this study) no amount of
additional research on the part of CBS would have lead them to exclude
the
documents from their 60 Minutes report.
...
Qualifications of the Lab
Interactive Media Research Laboratory is a small university lab that
does
scholarly studies and writes about issues involving the impact of
technology
on communications. Among other things, it is investigates archival and
authentication problems. As the principal investigator and lab director
I
have researched and written on these topics since 1991, with more than
50
peer reviewed publications.
In addition, I served in the U.S. military (Army) from 1963 to 1972. For
five of those seven years I was an Army illustrator responsible for
short
run publications including memos such as those in question. Ultimately,
I
have a total of almost 35 years experience examining document
production,
including analyzing and spec.ing type. I have an archive that includes
military documents produced between 1963 and 1984 and have access to a
repository of military documents here at the university. Finally, I have
extensive experience using computers to manage and manipulate images,
including type.
...
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