Posted on 09/20/2004 10:41:37 AM PDT by churchillbuff
could it be that elderly lady, the secretary?
:) The lovely and gracious Robin Rather....OR...the lovely and gracious Marian Carr Knox.....or the lovely and gracious Max Cleland!!!
It is certainly a crime, and a criminal investigation should be ongoing. I haven't heard that there is one. It seems to me there's a number of folks who might have jurisdiction - possibly the FBI because it was essentially a "wire transfer" of forged documents and possibly because it was federal documents; Texas Bureau of Investigation (or whatever they have in Texas) or even the Abilene sheriff's office. I suspect jurisdiction is the reason no one has launched an investigation, nobody feels it's their responsibility. If I had a badge I'd start an investigation.
I still think Burkett did it. The whole thing looks poorly done (typing a document in Word and then trying to pass it off as a typewritten 1972 document), and what I've read of Burkett suggests to me this has been done right up to about his par.
And I feel certain that if it gave him a chance to make Bush look bad, Rather would consider anyone an "unimpeachable" source.
Didn't the old secretary tell Dano that the style of the writing in the forged memos was "army" terminology and NOT TANG terminology?
And Burkett was retired National Guard (Army) and not TANG (Air Force).
could it be that elderly lady, the secretary?
No. They didn't know about her until after the forgery questions first came up. In fact, two of our local rags -- the Houston Chronicle and the Dallas Morning News -- found her before CBS did.
But this part of the story is the smoking gun! I see no way that CBS, not to mention its army of lawyers and executives, would have allowed Dan to to make such a statement on television if Burkett was the source. Not even Dan the Newsman has that much power within CBS. No, I am almost 100 percent certain that this unimpeachable source is someone other than Burkett. The question is who.
OK, you go to the computer and make this thing then you need to get it into the hands of CBS but not let them know you invented it. You have to find a middle man who can be trusted, another Vietnam buddy who wants to nail Bush, one that has inside ties to the campaign and will not be questioned. Burkett made these documents and gave them to Cleland whi sent them immediately to CBS.
Case Closed, call the FBI.
Hmmmm? They suddenly appeared in the output tray of his ink jet printer? Remember, the "jargon" used in the fake docs was Army terms, not Air Force. Burkett, aside from being a whack job, was Army NG.
Is the Kinkos on Cleland's path from the Bush Ranch? Burkett's closest fax machine surely is not in Abilene. Nope, he gave then to Cleland who faxed them, and yes, there should be security film of the bus stopping at Kinkos.
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