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The references to "Camp Avery" caught my eye, too. Someone was asleep at the switch, they are almost certainly referring to Camp Mabry in Austin, where Burkett was stationed and claims to have seen a bunch of Bush's files in a trash can. (Truthfully, I can see someone mis-hearing it, but it's not that hard to check, it's a known element of this story for months now.)

The stuff about the rumors being all over "Camp Avery" for years so-there-must-be-something-to-it is hysterical, because they are essentially using Burkett's rumors from while he worked at Mabry to confirm his later credibilty on the Killian memos!

Burkett made a bunch of claims of seing discarded memos back in Feb/March of 2004, months before the CBS memos, plus weird claims of having "reassembled" the trash memos. Google various combinations of "James Moore, Burkett, trash, files, reassembled" and some of the articles from Spring 2004 will surface. Including this fascinating one:
The Cleansing of Bush's Gaurd Duty: White House Ally, George Conn, Caught in a Lie [sic]

How any rational adult could not seriously question whether Burkett had somehow "reassembled" the Killian memos he conveniently produced for CBS defies belief. They have just wanted to believe it for so many years, this has cropped up every election since Bush ran for Governor the first time in '94.

Burkett was peddling a version of lost Bush memos at least in early '04, and when that didn't have the desired effect, he just HAPPENED to finally find the missing documents that would prove what they just KNEW was the truth! It's a miracle, LOL!

The disgusting thing isn't that these professional journalists are a bunch of morons--it's that they think WE are.

The references to "Camp Avery" caught my eye, too. Someone was asleep at the switch, they are almost certainly referring to Camp Mabry in Austin, where Burkett was stationed and claims to have seen a bunch of Bush's files in a trash can.

Even if they screwed up the name of the post, they still need to tell us why they think a Pilot assigned to the Air National Guard at an Air Base in Houston should have been reporting to an Army Guard base in Austin?

"It was so well known for years at Camp Avery about Bush and his failure to serve in the Texas Air National Guard," he said, referring to the base where Mr. Bush had been stationed in the early 1970’s.

Perhaps we give these newsies more credit than they deserve. Hell, even if your intentions is to produce a fraud, you still need to have basic facts if you want it to be believable. These people apparently don't even know the basics.

Burkett made a bunch of claims of seing discarded memos back in Feb/March of 2004, months before the CBS memos, plus weird claims of having "reassembled" the trash memos.

Exactly.

Rather flat out stated they had an "unimpeachable source" for these fake documents and as you note, the public record documents what type of character that source, Burkett, was. Yet the vaunted panel couldn't make the conclusions that are writ large...practically in flashing neon.