Excellent points! I keep thinking there has to be some person or persons operating in the background that we don't yet know about -- not even biased, partisan CBS would be dumb enough to take a bunch of "newly uncovered documents" straight from Bill Burkett and rush them onto national TV. Cleland's role may loom large, for Rather would consider him an 'unimpeachable' source (though why Cleland could be expected to know anything about TANG documents is a mystery to all except rabid leftists). Barnes could well play a large role -- did he merely tell his fairy-tale because CBS showed him documents, or did he have a role in arranging for the documents to be created and/or sent to CBS? He started flogging this horse back in May, so there may well have been many discussions in the rancid swamps of the Texas Demagogic Party between May and August. Burkett could even be the "fall guy" for a conspiracy he doesn't know about, because why would a former TNG officer produce such incredibly shoddy forgeries? (I know about the point made that there are 'Army' terms in the forged TANG documents, which could point toward Burkett, but loads of other people in the Texas Democratic Party circles could be responsible for that, too......
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