Josh Marshall has the scoop over at Talking Points Memo about an interesting development in the story regarding the documents featured on 60 Minutes II last week. The breaking news comes from this article in the Dallas Morning News. Pete Slover writes thusly:

The former secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel who supposedly authored memos critical of President Bush’s Guard service said Tuesday that the documents are fake, but that they reflect real documents that once existed.

Marian Carr Knox, who worked from 1956 to 1979 at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, said she prided herself on meticulous typing, and the memos first disclosed by CBS News last week were not her work.

“These are not real,” she told The Dallas Morning News after examining copies of the disputed memos for the first time. “They’re not what I typed, and I would have typed them for him.”

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She said she did not recall typing the memos reported by CBS News, though she said they accurately reflect the viewpoints of Lt. Col. Killian and documents that would have been in the personal file. Also, she could not say whether the CBS documents corresponded memo for memo with that file.

“The information in here was correct, but it was picked up from the real ones,” she said.

Interesting stuff for those following the story. Basically, the right's defense isn't that Bush served honorably but rather that these memos were forged. This strategy has been highly successful thusfar for the Republicans as they have been able to deflect a lot of the criticism the President may actually deserve. While Bush may not be teflon, he certainly has been dodging a bullet with this story, though time will tell if it ends up actually sticking.