Rather's attorneys also point to public statements by Michael Missal, a lawyer in Thornburgh's law firm who helped conduct the investigation.

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And he read from a prayer missal that they had kept hidden.

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Michael Missal, who cut his teeth on the WorldCom bankruptcy where the auditor was Arthur Andersen, was also the New Century bankruptcy examiner.

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Yet Missal's acknowledgment is a far cry from saying those fonts actually matched typewriters typically used at American military bases in the early 1970s.

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No one has appointed an Anton Valukas-style bankruptcy examiner or a Michael Missal to give MF Global the Lehman or the New Century treatment.

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"It's ironic that the blogs were actually wrong when they had their criticism, " Missal said in a speech back in March at Washington and Lee's law school.

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"We actually did find typewriters that did have the superscripts, did have proportional spacing, and on the fonts, given that these are copies, it's really hard to say, " Missal said.

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Taking their seats at an Agape Restaurant, guests would find in front of them guidebooks reminiscent of the Haggadah (the text followed at a Passover Seder) or the Missal, laying out the rules for how to behave at the meal.

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