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Dear mabelkitty,

I don't think I said that Mr. Burkett is the ultimate source of forged documents, though he may be, himself, the actual forger. It doesn't mean it was his original idea. I don't think I said he is the "brains" behind the scheme.

I've only noted that he is a Democrat operative in the state of Texas. Thus, part of the story is, "Democrat operative provides forged documents to libel president."

Where it goes from that point is another question.

But I think it's important to establish that Mr. Burkett is not some lone, non-political former Guardsmen, but a cog in the Democrat machine, and not even a disguised cog.

How the fact that this man is a Democrat operative could be a distraction is beyond me.


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[Robert A Cook PE]

Actually, IF (and it's a big IF!) they ever existed, I think Burkett IS the actually of the "original" (ie, hand-scribbled documents) that were the foundation of the typed forgeries.

More likely, somebody either read the original hand-scribbled notes (taken/stolen/removed from trash can) from Killian's desk after he died and then typed them up. then re-typed them as "Official memo's" to make Dan Rather's story "sweeter" ....

Or, somebody fabricated them "whole colth" from converstations with a democrat insider (i.e., the old secretary) and soembody who was in the reserves at the Austin headquarters at the time ("Austin is not happy") who knew the players' names involved.

So Burkett created (re-typed paper notes, or forged "originals") to match stories from the secretary and matched details from the April 27 Kerry press release to back up the forgeries.

Remember, Dan Rather's FIRST defense on Monday was that "these memo's exactly match the missing records in Bush's files. Therefore they must be true!"