USA Today acknowledges that it independently received the documents

USA Today | 9/13/04

[ambrose]

USA Today acknowledges that it indepedently received the documents

[ambrose]

See under the section heading "The Politics"... This explains why there are six documents posted on the USA Today website, and not just the four that See BS referred to.

[ambrose]

link:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-12-bush-documents_x.htm

[Fenris6]

USA Today needs to come clean - who is the forger?

[Carling]

Hmm, so three major news outlets received the same documents independently?

I say three because I believe the Boston Globe also received them as well.

Folks, the DNC is involved in this, and this makes Watergate look like amateur hour.

[abner]

Ping!

[FairOpinion]

"It is unclear where the documents, if they are real, had been kept in the intervening three decades."

I would say this is a darn good question.

[Texasforever]

This sounds like Burkett gave them both to USA and to CBS.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

I have a sneaking suspicion that it's this talion.com that is behind this smear.

1) Burkett was one of their clients in 2000 when this first surfaced.
2) They are Washington-based, as was the See BS producer (Maples) prior to when she started working for See BS out of Dallas.
3) They orchestrated the DNC DUI dirty trick perpetrated against Bush in 2000.
4) They provide experts for journalists on a deadline --- hmmmm.. where do you think the handwriting expert See BS used came from?

Now, if we could only link these smelly partisan hacks definitively to the DNC and Kerry to complete the puzzle.

[madison46]

Ping

[plushaye]

"No matter how it turns out, for now the controversy over the documents has blunted criticism of Bush's Guard record, which has been a persistent irritant for Bush since he first campaigned for the White House. It has sapped the power from an issue that had appeared to be a weapon for the Democrats against Bush."

This paragraph is the most important one for the Bush campaign. The DNC/CBS+Boston Globe/Kerry campaign/probably Burkett failed in ATTACK 1 of the FORTUNATE SON campaign. There will be more strikes this week but the first one was not only a dud but a major backfire.

[sixxiron]

Burkett is the fall guy for the DNC. They will dump this on a mentally unstable, disgruntled Vet and wipe their hands clean. Even if the docs came from a wacko, somebody had to run with them. Another Vet wasted by Kerry for political gain! W04

[ambrose]

forgibe my typo:




independently

[CFC__VRWC]

Interesting how only now, when the walls are closing in on Dan Rather and CBS over these forgeries, does USA Today come forward and admit they received copies as well. I believe they call this "running for the tall grass."

[pushforbush]

So, someone gives you documents that seem very important on an issue of great importance to you as a reporter. Do you: (a) just quote the documents and ignore where they came from; or (b) attempt to write a story that presents the documents and tells the reader where they came from and where they may have been hidden? I don't buy that there is someone who "could be retaliated against" who must be protected as a source here.

[thegreatbeast]

I'm declaring John Sasso as the man behind this; this job has his mo stamped all over it. You'd think he'd have learned that the truth will out.

[JennysCool]

You're forgiben.

[Arkinsaw]

Folks, the DNC is involved in this, and this makes Watergate look like amateur hour.

Not until the Justice Dept. gets involved it doesn't.

[sissyjane]

CBS, USA TODAY ,and what is the third media source that recieved the documents??

This just shows that someone was shopping these documents!!

CBS did not uncover them......there was no investigation....there was only A SMEAR thet someone wanted to be broadcast!!

[Always Right]

Folks, the DNC is involved in this, and this makes Watergate look like amateur hour.

I agree, this goes beyond typical dirty tricks and into criminal activity. I just don't understand why the GOP does not seem to be making a stink and investigating who made these memos. Forging government documents is a serious offense and can't just laugh it off.

[FairOpinion]

"forgibe my typo: "

I forgibe you. ;)