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On August 21, Burkett circulated an e-mail claiming he had been "in touch with Max Cleland".

On August 25, he posted the message that "we have reassembled [Bush's] files".

Barnes contacted Rather "during the Republican convention" (Aug 30-Sept 2).

On September 2, the documents were faxed from Kinko's.

Mapes contacted CBS on September 3.

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On August 25, he posted the message that "we have reassembled [Bush's] files".

$64.00 question who is the "we" besides Burkett = Mapes, Kerry campaign??

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Barnes contacted Rather "during the Republican convention" (Aug 30-Sept 2).

They said something like "in the middle of the Republican convention" so it's almost certainly either Aug 31 or Sept 1.

Sept 1st is my guess.
Why..?
Because, wasn't that Zell's night...?
Didn't Kerry try to claim that Cheney called him "unfit for office" (same think Knox later said of Bush)..?

I think it was that night that was the breaking point.
I think it was after Zell and Dick that Kerry's campaign decided to go nuclear and contact Rather. "That's it! We've had enough! We're GONG TO TAKE THE GLOVES OFF!!" Isn't that what Kerry's campaign suddenly promised right around that time..?

Their moves were all so obvious.

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On September 2, the documents were faxed from Kinko's.
Mapes contacted CBS on September 3.

Please clarify that point. The article says that Mapes advised CBS on Sept 3 that her source had given her the documents. But if the documents were faxed to CBS from Kinkos on the 2nd ...

Anyway, the details escape me there.

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On August 21, Burkett circulated an e-mail claiming he had been "in touch with Max Cleland".

On August 25, he posted the message that "we have reassembled [Bush's] files".

August 25, Cleland Puts On Political Theatre for Cameras in Texas


So, just a couple days after being contacted about the information by Burkett, Cleland just so happens to be in Texas.?
On the very same day that Burkett announces "we have reassembled" the files...
Who exactly is this "we"?

And I noticed this from the Washington Post:
In an Aug. 21 posting, Burkett referred to a conversation with former senator Max Cleland (D-Ga.) about the need to counteract Republican tactics: "I asked if they wanted to counterattack or ride this to ground and outlast it, not spending any money. He said counterattack. So I gave them the information to do it with. But none of them have called me back.

He clearly says I gave them the information to do it.
Perhaps Cleland came down to turn that "information" into some "authentic" documents.
Perhaps the forgery idea actually came from the Kerry campaign...
Look at the dates closely. He only had "information" on the 21st, when he contacted Cleland. Then Cleland comes into town and that same day Burkett and someone else reassembled the files.

Apparently someone from the Kerry campaign got in contact with him afterall, just sometime after writing the email. Sometime between the 21st and 25th.