Replies

I want to run something up the flagpole here. Just suppose for purposes of speculation that those phony documents were deliberately left for Burkett to find in that NG office. I've never understood why someone so flaky as him would be allowed in there with such sensitive documents. Knowing that Burkett was an unstable flake it would follow that at some point he couldn't restrain himself and would release these phony documents. Whoever, took the bait and CBS, anxious to torpedo Bush, went with the story. The WH was ready for this story by issuing a non-denial, that since CBS was a "credible news network" they wouldn't take issue with the documents. This was the "proof" that CBS had to run with the story.

Either way, it is hard to see how Rove could go wrong with phony documents since the news organizations could never establish the veracity of them. If they weren't published, no harm. If they were published, more the better. This would eat up a lot of campaign time and Kerry is damaged by his association to the MSM.

Am I nuts?

It would have taken a lot of foresight to have planted those documents there, what, seven or eight years ago, as bait in a scheme to come to fruition only now. I'm not biting.

Let's apply Occam's Razor- the simplest explanation is probably right. Burkett was bitter and vindictive, and he made the documents up to help Kerry, maybe even basing them on scuttlebut and rumor he heard floating aroung the TANG back in 1973. This seems the simplest explanation, and it's all I need.

Am I nuts?

you and everyone who suspect Rove or other Republicans are nuts - the forgeries were so bad, that I wouldn't have expected even my High School paper to ave beleived them. Who would have believed CBS could have been so stupid?

Am I nuts?

The answer is YES. As I understand it, any documents that Burkett claims to have seen at a NG office was like 7 or 8 years ago. Are you suggesting that Karl Rove started a plan 3 or 4 years before Bush was even elected to take down CBS in 2004?

How on God's green earth would anyone in the White House be capable of IDing the PERSONAL documents of the President's superior at the TANG? Did CBS think that copies of those personal documents somehow made their way to Bush's Pentagon file (and that CBS & the rest of the world had somehow glanced past them)? What was CBS thinking? Did Rather or Mapes expect Dan Bartlett to verify Killian's signature, WHAT? Those documents were shown to the White House staff for no reason other than to make Bush sweat, so Rather could luxuriate in contemplation of tearing off his pound of flesh and then dicing it.