I wondered how long it would take the blogsphere to start tightening the noose around the sources of the famous forged memos. The answer is “not long”. Wizbang is bringing the rope and Ace of Spades is practicing slipknots.

UPDATE: Drudge is reporting that the WaPo has determined that the documents show “marks” of having been faxed from a Kinko’s in Abilene, TX. There’s nothing that Google can find yet on the Washington Post’s web site. But I did find what appears to be the only Kinko’s in Abilene:

Kinko’s
4133 S Danville Dr
Abilene, TX 79605
(325) 698-3300

Hmm..and here’s something else interesting. Bill Burkett (who?) lives in Baird, TX. Baird, TX is 20 miles from Abilene, TX.

Last but not least, go to FedEx Kinko’s site and type in 79504, the zip code for Baird, TX. The closest location? Abilene, TX at 27 miles. The next closest is 111 miles away.

UPDATE:Of course, Instapundit noticed this already.

UPDATE:Drudge now has the WaPo article link. It’s a great article, and it’s interesting to me to see that if the MSM wants to chase down a story, it’s still possible for them to get out ahead of the Pajamahadeen occasionally.

I was struck by the last paragraph of the article, btw, which says:

In a related development, White House press secretary Scott McClellan hinted that more documents regarding Bush’s National Guard service may soon be released. Asked whether officials in the White House have seen unreleased documents, McClellan called that “a very real possibility.” Other officials with knowledge of the situation said more documents had indeed been uncovered and would be released in the coming days.

As I’ve observed, the next forgery will be better. I wonder whether this next batch of docs will be legit. If they are, or if they are in the least favorable to Bush, expect to see the left hemisphere of the blogsphere to swing into action, attempting to discredit these memos as fraudulent. Expect further to see the arguments take the form of “See, we can reproduce this old typewriter font on a modern word-processor, therefore it has to have been a modern forgery.” All of which will ignore completely the fact that it’s become almost trivial to manipulate text and place it any where and any way that you want; that’s the point of the ever-more-powerful tools for composition we have. The crux of the proof that the CBS memos were forged is that it was not possible to create them back then. But the left, in its eagerness to pretend moral equivalence and tit-for-tat, will miss this entirely as they desperately attempt to cook up their own “memogate”. Watch for it.