Because Burkett has some serious paranoia issues, and now feels like CBS and the DNC are trying to burn him. Which they are.
This has Clinton's fingerprints all over it. As soon as the Clinton people get hired, all hell breaks loose. All for Hillary '08
They're Rats, and in the immortal words of Obi Wan Kenobi, "you'll not find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." This is what happens when a gang of criminals and cowards and poltroons and moral bankrupts find that their carefully laid plots have blown up in their faces - it's everyone for itself, and the backstabbing and double dealing spirals out of control as each one scrambles to save its own sorry hide.