[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!"

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Dear Robert A. Cook, PE,

"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' ...."

Why? Why not just preserve the handwritten documents? They'd have much greater impact, be much easier to authenticate. They never existed, that's why.

CBS had been asking lots of folks detailed questions for lots of years, like, "Do you know of any memos where Bush is ordered to take a physical?"

Whoever created the forgeries listened to CBS' wish list of questions, and wrote the memos to fulfill those wishes.

It's clear that the DNC and the Kerry campaign coordinated their whole "Fortunate Son" charade with the release of the memos.


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