Posted on 09/15/2004 7:47:54 PM PDT by KMC1
~10:41pm~ EST JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH ABILENE KINKOS: Bill Burkett has a standing account with the Kinkos in Abilene Texas, and while the lady who answered the phone would not be more specific she did say Burkett was in there last week - she waited on him on last (a week ago) Tuesday....
(Excerpt) Read more at kmclive.com ...
Good work all! However, the story here remains CBS. Any bozo can forge documents against the President. The press should have enough investigative brains to see through crude forgeries.
Don't let finding out the source divert from the real story.
My Bad! Kinkos is open 24/7
Pajamarama
You're the MAN KMC1! This is on your Radio show Tonight?
LOL can't wait for the next act!
I think you people are jumping the shark a little bit... whoa nelly.. dont pull a Dan... I dont think he acted alone ... and i question the timing... :)
KMCl, Kevin, was this call make during radio broadcast?
That makes sense. So I guess there's another pdf somewhere with the Kinkos fax number on it?
I am with you. I cannot think that a store would give out this information. If so I don't want to do business with them.
I hope the Kinko's lady doesn't come up missing. Didn't the Kerry peopel send one away at hte start of the campaign?
Age, hubris, desperation, hate, sloth, unbroken circle of brown nosing, not having a decent news scoop in a decade and a half, being down to your last four viewers in a obscure nursing home...
Hey...we were all newbies once. He made a good point. Or are we also going to Rathergate evidence?
Worst possible news for Rather and CBS. The finger clearly points at Burkett, and if he refuses to claim that he is responsible, his credibility will be shot worse than it already is. And if he does claim responsibility, he'd have to produce the originals, explain how/where he got it, etc. And since that story won't hold up, BUSTED!
Abilene Reporter News
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Area man relays his claims about Bush Guard service
By Jerry Daniel Reed / Reporter-News Staff Writer
March 12, 2004
The campaign to create an image for George W. Bush led to Bush and some of his top aides lying about his military service, a retired Texas National Guard lieutenant colonel claimed during a speech to the Taylor County Democratic Club Thursday night.
"They lied, and they continue to lie," Bill Burkett told about 30 Democratic Club members. Burkett moved to Abilene about 1985 and to rural Callahan County in 2000, he said.
Last month, Burkett landed at the center of the controversy over President Bush’s Air National Guard service when Burkett told the Dallas Morning News that in 1997, he had overheard a conversation and found some discarded documents related to Bush’s service records.
"I just really didn’t know what to think of it," said Glyn Eastus, a member of the club’s executive board, of the speech.
She said she’d like to hear more of the story.
"I find him very credible," said Curtis Smith, past president of the club.
Both said they were surprised by Burkett’s style, which was much like preaching.
Burkett said he did not start out to be partisan, but acknowledged that he had grown more so. In his often-fiery talk to the Democratic club, he extolled bipartisanship.
Burkett said he overheard a speakerphone conversation in mid-1997 between Gen. Daniel James III, then Texas State Guard commander, and Joe Allbaugh, then-Gov. George W. Bush’s chief of staff, regarding Bush’s service records.
Allbaugh asked for permission to review Bush’s file to make certain nothing in it would embarrass the governor, Burkett said.
In an essay Burkett wrote in March 2003, Burkett leveled a more serious charge: that he had been sent to temporary duty in Panama after angering Bush by refusing to falsify records, including Bush’s own official personnel records.
That was "poorly stated," Burkett said Thursday night after his speech. He had not been ordered to falsify records, he said.
But out of loyalty, he was expected to keep mum about others’ actions to minimize negative information about Bush’s service record, he said.
James, now commander of the Air National Guard, and Allbaugh have both denied Burkett’s assertions.
Burkett’s motives have been questioned by critics who noted that he and others, including Gough and Conn, had been at odds with the Texas Guard leadership over issues regarding the guard’s military preparedness and Burkett’s claim that he was denied military-paid medical care for five months in 1998 after he was stricken with a meningoencephalitis.Burkett’s claim that he had contracted meningoencephalitis while on temporary duty in Panama in early 1998 has been disputed by the doctor who was state surgeon at Guard headquarters in 1997.
Any FReeper able to make a field trip to this Kinkos?
I've been battling reporters about Burkett for months. Here is a post about an exchange that I had with the Dallas Morning News about Burkett. Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News, who co-wrote the book "Bush's Brain," wrote a dreadful anti-Bush screed here that used Bill Burkett as the sole source. A few minutes of Googling revealed that Burkett's story had changed radically from the one he was telling during the 2000 campaign. In 2000, Burkett denied that the Bush team had "doctored" Bush's military records; now he's claiming that in 1997 he heard orders over a speakerphone from Joe Allbaugh to destroy damaging records. Leave it to the mainstream media to ignore those discrepancies.
Why did Burkett change his story so radically since 2000 and how can he now remember with such clarity an event that he apparently couldn't remember 4 years ago? I'm no journalist but I believe that this source has a severe credibility problem.
Further, Burkett has long been a vocal Bush opponent and has other credibility issues, such as this court case where he sued his superior officers for denying him military medical care. His case was dismissed by the trial court and was thrown out again when he appealed. Burkett claims that Bush sent him on the trip that caused his illness and has had it in for Bush ever since.
Yes that is the question isn't it. If you had the telephone records from Kinkos and a good list of DNC and Kerry campaign phone numbers you would be well on your way to anwering that question.
Any lawyers out there who know how to pull that off in good old friendly Texas?
Actually my post was all sarcasm. Hope is wasn't taken any other way. All Kudos to KMC1
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