Posted on 09/15/2004 9:09:10 PM PDT by ambrose
Does anyone have a link to the Boston Globe article where Conn says Burkett is lying?
Well, that settles it. We now have the truth. ( sarcasm ).
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/02/13/doubts_raised_on_bush_accuser/
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill Burkett, who has been pressing his charges in the national news media this week, says he even heard one high-ranking officer issue a 1997 order to sanitize the Bush file, and later saw another officer poring over the records and discovered that some had been discarded.
But a key witness to some of the events described by Burkett has told the Globe that the central elements of his story are false.
George O. Conn, a former chief warrant officer with the Guard and a friend of Burkett's, is the person whom Burkett says led him to the room where the Bush records were being vetted. But Conn says he never saw anyone combing through the Bush file or discarding records.
"I have no recall of that," Conn said. "I have no recall of that whatsoever. None. Zip. Nada."
Conn's recollection also undercuts another of Burkett's central allegations: that he overheard Bush's onetime chief of staff, Joe M. Allbaugh, telling a Texas Guard general to make sure there were no embarrassments in the Bush record.
check this out:
http://www.chronicallybiased.com/index.php?itemid=1544
Does anyone really believe that someone take the risk of "sanitizing" records, and not shred the records in question?
Unimpeachable source? I don't think so.
Oh yeah! They go to all of that trouble only to dump the originals in the trash can. Give me a break.
This is setting him up as the fall guy to protect cBS and others. IMHO this will track back to Barnes and Dan's daughter, then to the Kerry campaign.
You know, Burkett faxed his forged docs to the Boston Globe, USA Today, and to CBS. Now with CBS on the ropes and the NY Times breaking the story on Burkett, the reporters at USA Today and at the Boston Globe have lost their chance for a Pulitzer for exposing Burkett first.
I'll shed no tears for their loss. They chose to go along with the coverup.
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Me neither.
Has anyone been able to confirm that there is a DNC HQ 4.8 miles from the kinkos? Someone posted somewhere in here that there was a DNC HQ 4.8 miles from it.
"who are they (still) protecting?"
Their un-impeachable source, of course. : )
Burkett only gives them up if they vigorously seek prosecution against him for forging federal documents.
But that won't happen...
Burkett is the patsy, the bag man, that Van Os and Barnes made the face of this scandal.
There is no doubt that Barnes is hip-deep in this.
Whether he's left any fingerprints is another matter.
Even IF there is a proven bonafide "source," Dan Rather shall continue to suffice as THE face of CBS NEWS's Fraud.
Conn's answer--I hate to say--sounds lawyer-crafted. Why not say "that's untrue." "Maybe he's mixing me up with someone else." That foggy-memory leaves wiggle room later.
Don't be too sure about that. This is a crime and there will be a public outcry when the perp is ID'ed.
Are the pajama people pursuing who else Burkett's lawyer represents and what associations he might have that would be useful to this debate?
The NYTimes has got the patsy.
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