Interesting that the thought IN ADVANCE he would need defending.
This article has a lot of information that is new to me.
Among the many amazing facts: How could Rigler conclude that Burkett was not a liar when Burkett admitted lying about George Conn being the source? When he cooks up a cockamamie story about Lucy Ramirez and a stranger passing him the documents at the livestock show? When he delivers the documents but won't vouch for them? When he burns the originals and delivers unverifiable copies? When he falls on the floor crying in an interview w/ Rather? When he has been hospitalized for mental problems, and when he has pursued a legal jihad and been thrown out of every court that heard it? When the document contain errors that he would be likely to make (use of Army NG lingo insteat of Air NG lingo)? When he is, in short, a notorious whack job?
Believing Burkett would make Rigler the most credulous detective in the history of the world, unless the "not a liar" remark is out of context.
Mary Mapes and Burkett make quite a pair. They'll be filing pro se lawsuits and publishing screeds on this until the day they die, and in the end, hardly anyone will even know what the are talking about.