My guess is Burkett forged the documents on his computer, called CBS... who sent Mary Mapes down to get them. She went to the closest Kinkos store (Abelene) and faxed them to Rather.
freeper daviscupper suggested this in
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To: Common Tator
My law enforcement buddies always tell me that criminals are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
I bet it went down somethng like this: Bill Burkett tells Dan Rather he has some memos. Dan can not believe his good fortune and tells him to send them ASAP. Bill stalls Dan and tells him he will send them in a couple of days.
Now, Bill may be a complete moron but he locates a old, used typewriter and starts typing up a forged document. He is probably a piss poor typist and can not even get the paper in the carriage straight. Well, he probably spends endless hours and days trying to make a decent forged document that does not look like a 13 year old's attempt to murder a piece of paper.
Meanwhile Dan keeps calling him asking him about the memos. Dan, totally exasperated, frustrated and anxious to get his hands on the incriminating evidence, tells Bill to fax the memos today or forget the whole thing. In sheer frustration Bill goes to his computer and prints out a forged document using MS Word and a laser printer. It looks too good so he rumples it up of few times then makes a copy of a copy of a copy...until he convinces himself it looks thirty-two years old. Then he just faxes the damn memos.
Dan gets the memos and just about craps his pants. He is so thrilled he does not even bother to notice the proportional spacing, kerning, superscript "th" etc. He just runs with it. Nobody ever accused Dan of being the smartest reporter on the planet. Busted!
143 posted on 09/15/2004 11:12:26 PM EDT by daviscupper