Yeah, sure, and CBS and Burkett would protect Rove, LOL!
CBS admits that they went to Burkett. How did they know to seek him out? Who tipped them that Burkett had the forged documents? Why didn't they question the documents once they had them? All of this is pointing back to the Kerry campaign and the DNC.
Burkett admits to contacting Cleland. Max passed his information to the Kerry camp. Kerry nudges everyone about a blockbuster story about Bush's TANG service that CBS is going to run. The DNC prepares the "Fortunate Son" attack ads to coordinate with the CBS report.
So the timeline goes: Burkett gives the docs to Kerry. Kerry tells them to run the hit on Bush. Gives CBS the information to contact Burkett. Everything circles back to Burkett, with Robin Rather probably facilitating the contacts.
This isn't going away. It's only gonna get bigger.