Kerry camp's mudslinging blows up in their faces.

From The State:

WASHINGTON — Documents unearthed by CBS News that raise doubts about whether President Bush fulfilled his obligations to the Texas Air National Guard include several features suggesting that they were generated by a computer or word processor rather than a Vietnam War-era typewriter, experts said Thursday.

Experts consulted by a range of news organizations pointed to typographical and formatting questions about four documents as they considered the possibility that they were forged. The widow and son of the National Guard officer whose signature is on the bottom of the documents also disputed their authenticity.

The documents, aired Wednesday on “60 Minutes II,” bear dates from 1972 and 1973 and include an order for Bush to report for his annual physical exam and a discussion of how he could get out of “coming to drill.”

William Flynn, a forensic document specialist with 35 years’ experience, said the CBS documents raise suspicion because they use proportional spacing. Documents generated by the kind of typewriters widely used in 1972 space letters evenly across the page, so that an “i” uses as much space as an “m.” In the CBS documents, though, each letter uses a different amount of space.

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