Rove's got 'em spooked, that's for sure.
Hell, if he can pull of all this clandestine stuff, maybe he ought to run the CIA!
I think Burkett was merely the "beard" in the operation. He's covering for someone else. Surely Kerry, Mapes, Rather and comrads knew of Burkett's checkered past if all of us did (The Hatfield book in 2000) and used him as the dirty rag.