Good analysis. It is just so impossible on various levels that Rove was behind this. Not only, as you point out, is it totally at odds with Burkett's involvement, but it makes no sense from a strategic perspective. Would Rove have been crazy enough to put out documents that put W in a bad light, on the assumption it would backfire? And what if the fraud had been traced back to Rove? Game over for W. An incubment with a lead risking that? Never in a million years.
Burkett was the central character in this. Now no mention of him in the retorts to Hinchey. This is utterly infuriating.
How can they loose sight of Burkett's involvement, and Mape's admission that she got the faxed memo from him??? THAT is the contradiction to Hinchey's asinine theory!