Man you are really up on your stuff... Nice pics! That is amazing. I don't even know why we need Cleland, Von Os is a prominent enough Democrat himself! All these people are not just active participents in the Kerry Reelection campaign, they are LEADERS IN IT!
The only thing I know offhand that might be useful to add to your compilation is this, Burkett is such a prominent Dem that he was asked to speak at a Dem group in Taylor county Democrats. I bet they tie into all this somehow too:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27239-2004Sep16.html
"He's very bright; he's not a hayseed," said Royse Kerr, chairman of the Taylor County Democratic Club, which last spring invited Burkett to speak to the members about the "state of politics in America."
This is from Newsmax:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/17/04253.shtml
Burkett has frequently posted notes to an Internet message group for Texas Democrats, the Post said.
His comments urged other members to work harder to defeat Bush in the election, and blasted John Kerry for presiding over "one of the worst run campaigns I've seen in my lifetime."
"Many of us have risked everything on this election," Burkett said in a message posted a week before the Rather report. "The disappointment is deep and difficult to manage. But we fight on, in spite of incompetence at the top."
Burkett also recently posted an analysis of the president's Guard record on Democrats.com under the headline "Study Proves Bush Was Legally AWOL."
Point of interest:
"Many of us have risked everything on this election," Burkett said in a message posted a week before the Rather report. "The disappointment is deep and difficult to manage. But we fight on, in spite of incompetence at the top."
This risk he talks about might be him getting busted with these forgeries. All of this seems to point that he tried and tried to get this thing going and then one of two things happened. He just did the forgeries by himself without coordination and coincidences with the Kerry campaign occured. Or he finally got someone recepitve in teh Kerry campagin to listen to him (his lawyer got in it perhaps and his conversation with Cleland).
I'd say EVERYTHING is pointing to the latter. CBS wouldn't take JUST a disgruntled gaurdsmen, they needed backing from someone like Barnes and others in the Kerry campaign to give him legiitimacy and to boost his standing in the eyes of CBS. The national attack by surrogates at the DNC on Bush's guard service, the videos and advertisements, this Texans for truth group. All of this came together in a perfect way right as this was happening. I think someone up top saw an opportunity, identified persons of interest and set the balls rolling. Kerry himself said he was 'taking off the gloves' and was 'furious' over the Swift Vets. He also said something like, 'your going to question my patriotism/service then Bring it On!'. We just need to piece together how exactly it occured and how far up it went.
Remember the FIRST person to 'admit' (albiet indirectly) they were for sure fake was Terry McAulife, when he annouced the day right afterwards that 'if I were a young journalist I would ask Karl Rove those questions' (about how the memos were faked).
To be honest, I am surprised that as much has come out so far as it has..... You would think that Barnes, Burkett and Cleland would have kept their mouthes shut tight after all this....