Rather and CBS made very much of the unimpeachable character of the source of these documents.
Now, that doesn't sound like they were describing Burkitt, does it? CBS simply wouldn't have known enough about the man to give him that kind of blanket endorsement.
Burkett may have been the forger, but it strains credulity to take him as the immediate source.
Rather would call his daughter an unimpeachable source and as her father would find it hard to out her as the source. makes ya kinda go hmmmmmmmm
Indeed. But who WOULD have been an unimpeachable source? Surely, Cleland is no more unimpeachable than Burkett. Cleland didn't serve in the TANG. Where would HE get the documents, and wouldn't an ethical news organization checked HIS source? No, the answer is "it depends on what the meaning of 'unimpeachable' is." Strictly in the greedy, vengeance-lidded eye of the recipient.