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September 11, 2004 Expert angrily denies Globe story Apparently the Boston Globe has again misrepresented what someone said (boy, there's a surprise ... remember George Elliott?). As you recall, Bill at INDC Journal first interviewed Dr. Philip Bouffard, a documents expert. Dr. Bouffard, at that time said he was 90% certain that the documents were fake. But today, the Globe claims the following: Philip D. Bouffard, a forensic document examiner in Ohio who has analyzed typewritten samples for 30 years, had expressed suspicions about the documents in an interview with the New York Times published Thursday, one in a wave of similar media reports. But Bouffard told the Globe yesterday that after further study, he now believes the documents could have been prepared on an IBM Selectric Composer typewriter available at the time. Backing away? By that paragraph it would seem so. But not so fast. According to INDC Journal, Bouffard is livid and contacted Bill to set the record straight. Read this first, then this. The Globe adds a bit more to a growing line of "questionable journalism" among the old media. Its apparent that they want to dismiss all of this analysis as nothing so badly they can taste it. And they're working to do so in any way necessary. |