Bill Burkett admits to reassembling Bush's TANG file.

This revealing statement was made in an article on Aust 25, 2004; just a short time before Rathergate. It is on second page of doc.

Thanks to Captain ED's blog site: captainsquaterblog.com

1 posted on 09/16/2004 4:16:30 PM PDT by ketchikan

This guy is a forgerer? But not a liar?

2 posted on 09/16/2004 4:17:19 PM PDT by occutegirl (Does Dan Rather support the police planting evidence, or just the media?)

3 posted on 09/16/2004 4:17:57 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)

4 posted on 09/16/2004 4:18:49 PM PDT by Jackson Brown

Correction re link: It is captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

5 posted on 09/16/2004 4:20:44 PM PDT by ketchikan

Correction re link: It is captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

6 posted on 09/16/2004 4:21:05 PM PDT by ketchikan

That's a very interesting statement ... "reassembled." Sounds like a confession to me. I'm convinced Burkett did it, particularly after seeing the MapQuest map someone posted last night showing Burkett's hometown compared to Abilene and its Kinkos.

7 posted on 09/16/2004 4:21:15 PM PDT by eyespysomething (I'm typing up lottery tickets. I mean, as long as the content is true the rest doesn't matter.)

Wonder if Burkett is also responsible for the documents which are apparently missing from Bush's file.

8 posted on 09/16/2004 4:24:48 PM PDT by ambrose (http://www.swiftvets.com)

9 posted on 09/16/2004 4:30:33 PM PDT by Dog

To: eyespysomething

I remeber seeing that map ... hilarious! I agree that Burkett's the one. Plus, Rather made statements about the source of the documents that point to Burkett, too. See post 4, this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217818/posts

10 posted on 09/16/2004 4:33:12 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)

as if this story could get more bizarre or be based on more unreliable souces than any story in history, whatcha wanna make a bet this bill guy gets carted off in a straitjacket, screaming bush invectives.

geez, i feel like we are in an episode of south park or something.

11 posted on 09/16/2004 4:34:32 PM PDT by wildwood

it's become an episode of south park, no doubt. next thing you know, karl rove is going to trick burkett into eating his own parents.

12 posted on 09/16/2004 4:37:18 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)

On
Burkett,
Besides his mental problems and bringing suit against the gov, would there be anything to the claim he makes about "seeing Bush documents in the garbage"? In other words, we need some Gaurd military people to tell whether documents in the trash were only left there or shredded?
Also, the media, even Fox doesn't mention the difference between Air National Guard vs. Army National Guard?
Just trying to brainstorm on suspicious points here.
May have already been posted.
Anyone?

13 posted on 09/16/2004 4:39:43 PM PDT by oreolady (sad and stupid people support skerry)

14 posted on 09/16/2004 4:44:01 PM PDT by MistyCA

Call Dan Rather, he wants to break this story

15 posted on 09/16/2004 4:46:50 PM PDT by woofie (This document was generated in 2004 by a computer)

The plot thickens. See this post from earlier today.

16 posted on 09/16/2004 4:47:07 PM PDT by datura (Democrat=Communist=America's Enemy Within)

To: SittinYonder

it's become an episode of south park, no doubt.

ooooo, or dan rather will try to blow up KENNETH, screaming "COURAGGEEEE!!!!" as he kamikazes off the cbs news building.

oooooooo......

17 posted on 09/16/2004 4:47:34 PM PDT by wildwood

WE have reassembled.

Who's included in this we, Mr. Burkett?

Who helped you reassemble these records?

18 posted on 09/16/2004 4:48:38 PM PDT by hansel

If he indeed took the file, he is a criminal

19 posted on 09/16/2004 4:50:27 PM PDT by Inge C (,)

USA Today:
* Bill Burkett, a former lieutenant colonel in the Texas National Guard, says that four years ago, he and a group of officers informed Adjutant General Danny James, the state commander, that 7% of the Texas Army Guard's 16,300 troops were ghost soldiers. Burkett and others say that despite promises to fix the problem, the Texas Army Guard continues to include soldiers who shouldn't be on the rolls. According to figures provided by the National Guard Bureau, over the past two years, Texas has had anywhere from 1,300 to 1,800 unpaid soldiers on its rolls, more than 11% at its peak.

MICHAEL HEDGES, Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau. Houston Chronicle.Houston, Tex.: Feb 14, 2004. pg. 24.
Burkett and some friends from his Guard days have been involved in an ugly dispute with the Texas National Guard and officers appointed by then-Gov. Bush for several years.

One of those friends, Harvey Gough, said this week that he became so incensed at what he saw as malfeasance by the Guard's senior officers that he hired a private detective to delve into James' personal life. James is the son of former Gen. Chappy James, the first black four-star general.

Through a spokesman, James denied all of Burkett's charges.

Burkett, Gough, Adams and others have waged an ugly feud with the Guard over what they said was fraud, waste and corruption.

Burkett sued three officers in the Texas Guard in the late 1990s, claiming that they blocked him from receiving medical support after he went to Panama on a Guard-related mission and contracted a debilitating disease. Gough alleged in a lawsuit that he was subjected to anti-Semitic remarks from one of James' staffers, and when he complained, James court-martialed him. Both suits failed.

Burkett also raised charges against James and others at Texas legislative hearings in the late 1990s.

Rep. Bob Hunter, R-Abilene, conducted one of the hearings and said this week that there was no substance to Burkett's charges.

Sounds like the good ol boys got busted by James and they didn't like it.

20 posted on 09/16/2004 4:55:50 PM PDT by e_castillo

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