If I say "proportional-spaced font" and "superscript" and "Little Green Footballs," what comes to mind? Ah yes, the forged memo about George Bush's National Guard service that cost Dan Rather his job at CBS.

With that in mind, I invite you to read the following description of a different forged memo - the one Ron Suskind says was drafted at the White House on creamy stationery and given to George Tenet to have his people give to their asset (and former Iraqi intelligence chief) Tahir Jalil Habbush and then leak to the press. This is how the memo was described by the ultimate recipient of the leak, the U.K. Telegraph's neocon propagandist Con Coughlin:

The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, is dated July 1, 2001

Now as far as I can tell, that forged memo has never actually been published. So imagine my surprise when I watched the CBS report by Bill Plante and saw... the forged memo!

Now you don't have to be an expert on superscripts or proportional-spaced fonts to spot the problems here:

1. If that is "handwritten," then Habbush is actually a robot. 

2. The damn thing is in English, not Arabic, which would be awfully peculiar for a memo supposedly written by Habbush for Saddam, a thug not known for his Oxbridge accent.

So the first question is for CBS: guys is this the actual Habbush memo, or some overpaid intern's idea of what an Iraqi government memo might look like?

If CBS says it's the actual memo, then the next question is for Con Coughlin: is this the same memo you reported on? If so, where is the handwritten part?