USA Today has an article on the whole scandal under the bemusing headline They used their own experts, who come to the conclusion that the documents were produced by a word processor and the signatures are likely forgeries as well.

One telling new wrinkle comes in at the end:

“USA TODAY obtained copies of the documents independently soon after the 60 Minutes segment aired Wednesday, from a person with knowledge of Texas Air National Guard operations. The person refused to be identified out of fear of retaliation. It is unclear where the documents, if they are real, had been kept in the intervening three decades.”

Hmmm. Sounds like Burkett to me.

Then they wrap it up by stating baldly the pickle the Kerry and the Dems and the MSM now find themselves in:

“No matter how it turns out, for now the controversy over the documents has blunted criticism of Bush’s Guard record, which has been a persistent irritant for Bush since he first campaigned for the White House. It has sapped the power from an issue that had appeared to be a weapon for the Democrats against Bush.”

Yeah, whatever. Cry me a river.

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The URL for the USA Today article is so long I’m nervous trying to link to it because I don’t want to mess up the thread formatting. But I got to it via PoliPundit, which is here

http://polipundit.com/