Burkett: Lockhart Asked Me for Rathergate Documents

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Burkett: Lockhart Asked Me for Rathergate Documents

Former National Guard commander Bill Burkett has become the first player in the CBS forged document scandal to implicate John Kerry's presidential campaign, telling the Fort Worth Star Telegram that top Kerry aide Joe Lockhart pressed him to turn over damaging evidence on George Bush.

During a single phone conversation with Lockhart, Burkett told the Telegram that he suggested a "couple of concepts on what I thought (Kerry) had to do" to beat Bush.

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In return, he said, Lockhart tried to "convince me as to why I should give them the documents." Lockhart has staunchly denied that he ever discussed the forged documents with Burkett, though he confirmed that a conversation had indeed taken place in a call arranged by "60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes.

But with Burkett now claiming otherwise, Republicans have their first evidence of Rathergate wrongdoing that directly implicates the Kerry campaign.

Burkett also complained that "60 Minutes" anchorman Dan Rather tried to set him up as a "fall guy" in the forged document scandal during his mea culpa broadcast on Monday.

"He snipped [my interview] apart to cover them," he told the Telegram. "That's all that that evening news was - to find a fall guy. And it was me."

"Dan Rather ruined my reputation in front of 70 million people," he added.

Burkett's former lawyer said Tuesday that the controversial Guardsman was preparing a lawsuit against CBS.

*********Additional Information**************
**Original Newspaper Account Corrected*******

CBS source denies plotting with Kerry

By Jack Douglas Jr.

Star-Telegram Staff Writer

This article has been corrected from the version published in the newspaper and online Friday morning to reflect that Bill Burkett was referring to conversations with CBS when he said, "They tried to convince me as to why I should give them the documents." The earlier version incorrectly reported that he had discussed the documents with Joe Lockhart of the Kerry campaign.

[plewis1250]

The goose that keeps laying the golden eggs...
This keeps getting better and better....

[Just Lori]

At our age we should be so honored. At 53 I am ready to sacrifice my life in the war against terrorism. Someone tell President Bush that there are older more mature folks ready to kill savages in defense of our families and our nation.



I pray to God it never comes to that, because if it does, they will be in our streets. If THAT happened, you would see the militia of the 1700's. And the liberals want to take our guns away......

[plewis1250]

Great point!
Evidence... forged evidence of a forged story... funny how that works with the libs...

[claudiustg]

That Bur-kay sure has a mouth on him, doesn't he? :^)

[Just Lori]

Be Careful, Dems are experts on the Dead, the dead have been voting democrat overwhelming for years...


And today there's an investigation in Michigan about that very "dilemna"..... or was it Illinois? Makes me ashamed for ever being a Democrat! Well, that's history.

[claudiustg]

The Plague

[spokeshave]

"LOL, now they have to attack Burkett so as not to call Lockhart a liar. Therefore, defending their beloved CBS is made even more difficult since CBS relied on this man the left will now have to call a nut."

All their triangulation belongs to us

Too funny

[DB]

Exactly.

[spokeshave]

That was Sartre.

Camus wrote "The stranger"

Darkness at Noon for John F'n

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Two words of caution for Burkett -- Ron Brown.

[DB]

What's next?

Burkett comes out and says he's really a Republican working for Rove...

Then things would come really unhinged...

(I hope his lawyer doesn't read this)

[kik5150]

"Two words of caution for Burkett -- Ron Brown."

If anything does happen to Burkett, the conspriracy theorists will have a field day.
Bill Burkett- the Jack Ruby of our time

[rolling_stone]

While you are getting to the bottom of this, do you remember ten little indians or then I kissed her?

[tame]

If we find this guy in Fort Marcy park, I am going to spit..

lol.

[danamco]

Mapes is a fool in love with promoting her agenda to fall for Burkett's story of"seeing Bush's files in a trashcan"



Now, where does Texan RRather comes into the picture???

[tame]

While you are getting to the bottom of this, do you remember ten little indians or then I kissed her?

Of course :o)

[danamco]

I have a sneeking suspicion that Burkett may attempt suicide before this is all through :o(



Yep! Right in Marcy Park!!!

[tame]

Yep! Right in Marcy Park!!!

He may REALLY kill himself if he gets into legal trouble over this.

[tonyinv]

I wouldn't get your hopes up about this, Burkett has been discredited..nothing he says now will hold any weight unless he has recordings of the conversations. Although his story is plausible and probably true, we cant turn around and take anything this nut says as true without verifiable evidence. We must hold ourselves to our own standards.

My money is on Mapes, she's the one who will be tossed overboard at CBS. She will be sacrificed for Rather's legacy. She may turn on all of them (the whole woman scored thing ya'know).

The bumper-sticker attention span that got Bill Clinton elected twice is still around today. It doesn't matter what the details of this story end up being, these facts will stick out:
1. The docs are fake
2. CBS tried passing them off as real even when they were told the docs were probably fakes by their own experts
3. there was coordination between CBS and the Kerry campaign (Cleland,Lockhart,...)
4. Republicans had absolutely nothing to do with this, except to ferret out the fraud

All the rest of this skulduggery is fun to watch for news junkies, but this story has been told already, the salient facts are out and have made their impression. Kerry's numbers went down even further after this story broke, the fit hit the shan and it splattered all on the Dems.

[danamco]

Mapes, also, could add pieces to the puzzle by coming clean


LOL!!!