[ClancyJ]

Maybe Mapes "needed" Burkett because he is the fall guy to be used IF problems occur. (Maybe Mapes arranged with the Dem campaign to get the documents forged. Had to be someone with a little knowledge of word processing, military lingo.)

[Starboard]

"I didn't forge anything," Burkett said. "I didn't fake any documents. The only thing I've done here is to transfer documents from people I thought were real to people I thought were real. And that has been the limitation of my role. I may have been a patsy."

USA Today (see links in post)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1222758/posts