Isikoff is right. This reeks. Burkett was the courier. He was a vulnerable figure with enough baggage to throw him under the bus if the forgeries were uncovered.
My gut is telling me Cleland is not involved as deeply as we think. It doesn't make sense that he would come out and admit that he talked to Burkett if he was the main guy involved.
The Carl Cameron quotes regarding Kerry open up a whole new can of worms. Cleland's not the guy, though. It's someone higher up.
Spikey Mikey (Isikoff) just noticed questions raised last week by most of the rest of the snob media. CBS didn't respect their own experts' opinions that the documents were inauthentic. Given that, any reasonable news operations stops right there, and moves on. No public presentation at all, no fallout.