WaPo
Retired Lt. Col. Bill Burkett, who earlier said he overheard Bush aides conspiring with the commander of the Texas National Guard to "sanitize" the president's military records, has refused to comment on reports that he could be CBS's confidential source. In e-mails yesterday to The Washington Post, he said he would speak out "at the appropriate time" but "that time is not now."
Yeah, "at the appropriate time," after consulting with Van Os, Cleland?, Mapes, Rather, Moore, NYT?, TVFK. After Nov. 2? Veeeery Interesting.
How does Cleland fit into this. Simple, in a word: revenge (over losing his Senate seat in Ga.). His "cell phone" conversation with Burkett, saying he passed the information on to the DNC is a classic case of "CYA." Where have we seen that before?
This is my first post here at Free Republic, but have been a frequent visitor, and I must say I am truly impressed with all of the contributors who have done so much to expose the bias of the MSM. The MSM will still live, but you can bet they will at least try to make sure they make the term CYA mean something again. If they do not bloggers from the right or left, or both, will burn them.
Bill Burkett tells everyone that he found these incriminating records in the trash can.
From a CNN article dated February 13, 2004:
Burkett said that the day after he overhead Allbaugh's request, he heard James convey a directive to the state services officer to gather Bush's files and go through them. Then, about 10 days later, he said, he came across "files on a table."
"But I also saw at the edge of that table a roughly 15-gallon, old metal waste can. At the top of that were several pages, 20 to 40 pages approximately," Burkett said on CNN's "Paula Zahn Now."
"I glanced down at the top of those documents. In ink was the word 'Bush, George W., 1 Lt.' This was a performance report. I was right at the trash can. I filtered through the top five or six pages in that, and they were all copies and originals of old performance documents and pay records for 'Bush, George W., 1 Lt."
Now I ask you, if you had traveled halfway across the country to "sanitize" official government records that might be embarassing to the future president of the United States, would you just chuck them in the trash can for any Joe Schmo to find a week or two later? (What, the janitors didn't empty the garbage every night?) Pffffft...the mere idea is ludicrous.