Posted on 09/23/2004 8:46:45 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Edited on 09/24/2004 2:23:34 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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.
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**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.
NOOO, that can't be. CBS would never edit an interview to suit their own agenda. Why, it would be unethical.
The memos were supposedly from the PRIVATE files of Col Killian, so how could the Bush Admin say they're fakes?
You left out Hillary, laying in waiting, rubbing her hooves in glee.
Exactly,A crime was committed
Anyway--at least I get $500 for knowing Kerry's middle name. I mean, you don't need a college degree to know it's "Fing!"
Yeah, that about sums it up doug...but like the metrosexual terminator in T2 chasing Ahhhhnold, The Crime Syndicate will reconfigure itself and keep coming at us. This movie is not over.
Oh dang, once again my possesion of college degrees results in my humiliation.
I always thought it was Forbes, his mothers maiden name,they made a killing(literally) in the Opium Trade.
As a Bush bumper-stickered, conservative Republican... I just want to say, "THANK YOU DAN RATHER."
I'm almost embarassed as to how much enjoyment I'm getting out of this ever-expanding train wreck.
"Exactly,A crime was committed"
Indeed a crime. But there are worse crimes than this. Such as the beheadings of Armstrong and Hensley.
I'm just curious. Where is the outrage?
It is called desensitization sadly.
We need to keep hammering on this, that dams about to burst and flush the Johns down the toilet.
What did you expect, that's what they tried to do to the President of the United States...when it didn't work they had to put up a fall guy. When you strike at the king make sure you don't fail.
Here he got the information he was waiting years for to burn Bush and he himself destroys the only thing that can authenticate him and make his story true. He could have saved his good name and burned the President at the same time but what does he do? Destroys the evidence backing up his own story and ends up making fool out of himself instead of a hero.
sinkspur: Are you kidding? The DNC and CBS will hire David Boies, who will back a truck up to Burkett's front door and unload gold bars into his living room to keep him quiet.
tame: I'll bet I'm right. Especially if Burkett is "Lucy Ramirez", and the fit hits the shan.
You know, the more I think about it, Burkett does look kind of like Sandy Berger.
"It is called desensitization sadly."
Any human who watches the Armstrong beheading video will forever be sensitized. I viewed it from a link here on FR. This video should be broadcast nationwide and used for
recruitment to kill jihadists.
sinkspur: Are you kidding? The DNC and CBS will hire David Boies, who will back a truck up to Burkett's front door and unload gold bars into his living room to keep him quiet.
tame: I'll bet I'm right. Especially if Burkett is "Lucy Ramirez", and the fit hits the shan.
sinkspur: If Burkett is Lucy Ramirez, will the shoes match the purse?
tame: Maybe not, but at least he wouldn't have had to keep the documents in his pants and sox if he does have a purse.
You know, the more I think about it, Burkett does look kind of like Sandy Berger.
The only reason that this story is still in the news is that Hillary wants it in the news.
But it was just fine to try to ruin President Bush's reputation in front of 70 million people? These people are all a bunch of low lifes, from Dan Rather to Burkett, McAuliffe and Kerry and everyone else affiliated with them.
There is no honor among thieves.
I watched Nick Berg's beheading and I have never gotten it out of my mind. I will never watch another one and I am a pretty tough guy.
You mean arkancide....
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