IMO .. Burkett was just the fall guy
I agree. They'll hang this whole mess around Burkett's neck, pat him on the back and say he's not responsible because he's mentally ill. And they're not reponsible because they took him at his word and thought he was credible. Voila. A little French lingo there for Kerry, who's probably reading FR and wetting his pants.
If someone could fax a document of Times New Roman 12 text from that Kinko's location, capture it on a computer, and post it on the web, that would help clear up a lot.
In particular, (1) the letter shapes were distorted, pretty consistently, in a certain way which could only happen if the first-generation fax machine did it; (2) if someone has the earlier AP .pdf with the Kinko's number (I read that it had since been replaced with a lower-resolution version) it would be interesting to compare the date/time stamp format of that fax with that of the Kinko's machine.
One very real possibility I think needs to be considered (and either confirmed or rebutted) is that Burkett sent something from Kinkos at the time indicated on AP's fax, but that the AP's fax was sent my a machine programmed to lie about the date/time/origin so as to match whatever it was that Burkett had sent.