”It’s Bur-KAY!”
Posted on 09/20/2004 12:52:51 AM PDT by dandelion
Cleland goes down to Texas to deliver that letter to Bush at his ranch. Bush snubs Cleland, Burkett contacts Cleland with documents in hand. Cleland contacts Rather and says he has a gold mine that he is looking at and it will destroy Bush. Rather starts foaming at the mouth, he now has an "unimpeachable" source for something. The documents get faxed to Rather and he is off to the races and doesn't bother to fact check anything since they came from a former Democrat Senator who says they are good as gold. Cleland doesn't know Texas politics and doesn't know that Burkett is a loose cannon. Rather doesn't check up on where Cleland got the papers.
CBS News Concludes It Was Misled on National Guard Memos, Network Officials Say
By JIM RUTENBERG, NYTIMES
Published: September 20, 2004
After days of expressing confidence about the documents used in a "60 Minutes'' report that raised new questions about President Bush's National Guard service, CBS News officials have grave doubts about the authenticity of the material, network officials said last night.
The officials, who asked not to be identified, said CBS News would most likely make an announcement as early as today that it had been deceived about the documents' origins. CBS News has already begun intensive reporting on where they came from, and people at the network said it was now possible that officials would open an internal inquiry into how it moved forward with the report. Officials say they are now beginning to believe the report was too flawed to have gone on the air.
But they cautioned that CBS News could still pull back from an announcement. Officials met last night with Dan Rather, the anchor who presented the report, to go over the information it had collected about the documents one last time before making a final decision. Mr. Rather was not available for comment late last night.
The report relied in large part on four memorandums purported to be from the personal file of Mr. Bush's squadron commander, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, who died 20 years ago. The memos, dated from the early 1970's, said that Colonel Killian was under pressure to "sugar coat'' the record of the young Lieutenant Bush and that the officer had disobeyed a direct order to take a physical.
Mr. Rather and others at the network are said to still believe that the sentiment in the memos accurately reflected Mr. Killian's feelings but that the documents' authenticity was now in grave doubt.
The developments last night marked a dramatic turn for CBS News, which for a week stood steadfastly by its Sept. 8 report as various document experts asserted that the typeface of the memos could have been produced only by a modern-day word processor, not Vietnam War-era typewriters.
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Time to take another look at Robert "Bob" Tuke and the Bolano bothers (Rick, Louie, Bill and Ben).
I never thought of that .. hmmmm
Looks like this guy, van Os, has committed political hairy Kerry by associating with Burkett.
Van Os is Burkett's lawyer, and was former head of Travis County Dems (Austin).
Makes sense. Cleland's display at Crawford was disgraceful--
http://www.chronicallybiased.com/index.php?itemid=1555#more
Have this in my favorites file now....Thanks
BTTT
Excellent report Dandy
Go gettem!
http://www.vanosforsupremecourt.com/
Scroll on down for Lt.Col Bill Burkett's recommendation letter.
Bump to read later...
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