Posted on 09/15/2004 7:06:18 PM PDT by KStorm
Edited on 09/15/2004 7:13:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
DRUDGE SIREN:
CBS Guard Documents Traced to Texas Kinko's...
WASH POST: Documents allegedly written by deceased officer that raised questions about Bush's service with Texas National Guard bore markings showing they had been faxed to CBS News from a Kinko's copy shop in Abilene, Texas... Developing...
I just skimmed the article, I don't see CBS talking about Kinko's...did I miss it? Thanks.
It's starting to be discussed...over there:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x830076
Pardon me if someone already has pointed this out but I believe that faxing false or fraudulent documents in order to commit a crime (in this case, influencing a federal election)is a federal offense (wire fraud 18USC).
LOL...I hope the KINKO's in Abilene DOES have surveillance.
I wanna see the tape of the mob decending and the look on the attendant's face!
An excellent summary.
That gun is SMOKING!
Book'em Danno.
You've nailed it.
Aw don't worry. Somebody will 'sing'. Everyman has his 'price' doncha know....
"It appears Rather fell for some sort of Con..."
Rather IS the con!
Ain't we got fun!
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.
That's the guy that I figured is behind this, ever since the story broke.
Is it Kinko's that's been running that cute TV commercial where the guy walks in and has heard about savings on sending packages and tells the efficient black counter girl that he, alternatively, wants to send the package to Lala Land, Funky Town, etc?
"How do people come here all the time for years and still manage to stay quiet?"
I never understood lurkers.
By Reporter-News staff reports
September 14, 2004
Burkett named as source
Bill Burkett, a former Abilene resident, has been identified by Newsweek as a ''principal source'' of last week's disputed report by CBS News and veteran anchor Dan Rather about documents that cast more negative attention on President Bush's Air National Guard service.
The documents in question purport to be memos of then-Guard pilot Bush's commanding officer, the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian.
The documents reportedly record Killian's suspension of Bush from flying in 1972, and mention Killian's anxiety about pressure he was receiving from Col. Walter ''Buck'' Staudt to ''sugarcoat'' his evaluations of Bush.
CBS News and Rather have said they continue to believe in their story based on the documents, which aired last Wednesday on the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes II. By Thursday, however, other media outlets such as the Washington Post were casting doubt on the CBS report, based on authorities who voiced the opinion that it was highly unlikely the controversial documents were produced on typing equipment available to Killian in the early 1970s.
Burkett, a rural Callahan County resident, excited a flurry of national publicity last February when he said that in 1997 he had spotted Guard records of then-Texas Gov. Bush in the trash. Burkett, a retired lieutenant colonel, was then stationed at Camp Mabry in Austin, headquarters of Texas military forces.
Bush was assigned to the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in Houston in 1972 before he was transferred to an Alabama unit.
The Newsweek report is in an article titled ''Slime Time Live'' in the magazine's online edition, which is dated Sept. 20.
Calls to Burkett's listed phone number were not returned Monday.
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