David Van Os (Bill burkett's lawyer) with Senator Max Cleland
Posted on 09/20/2004 6:28:41 AM PDT by johnny7
Fact is, there are a LOT of VERY serious issues that should be pushed HARD about the documets.
1. The widow and son were IGNORED
2. Document experts were IGNORED
3. Hodges was MISLED
4. The old secretary was NOT INTERVIEWED until afterward
5. The opinions of the experts were MISREPRESENTED
6. The swift boat veterans were MALIGNED
7. George Bush's roomate DURING HIS GUARD YEARS, who AGREED TO SPEAK TO THEM WAS TURNED DOWN BECAUSE HE WAS TOO "PRO BUSH"...
And the list goes on. Fact is, this was a HIT PIECE ON BUSH. And just because dnCBS owns up to fake documents does NOT CLEAR THEIR PROPAGANDA / DNC REPORTING!!
If the documents were the ONLY ISSUE in this, without all of the other plainly propaganda driven results, it wouldn't be such an issue.
THE DOCUMENTS ARE JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG! THE ICEBERG IS THE MANIPULATION AND DECEPTION OF THE PUBLIC!!
This is how I see things went down:
Burkett created Memo ======> Provided to Cleland ======>
OK'd from Kerry ======> Cleland gave Memo to Texas DNC =====>
Texas DNC faxed to CBS News
Max, on principle, shouldn't you resign from your 6-figure-salary government job that W appointed you to?
Motive and opportunity
Max the malingerer must take a bath and come clean, but will not.
Max Cleland, at this very moment, may be wishing the medics weren't so efficient those many years ago, and Bill Burkett most certainly is pining away for the good old days, when he was safe and secure in a rubber room.
CBS worked 4 years on the National Guard story?
How many years did they work on the Juanita Broaddrick story?
If these suggestions are true, that there was collusion, then I'd hazard to say Max doesn't have a leg to stand on.
And softly in the background, "Taps" is being played.
Link or limb?
What are the chances that the Kerry campaign is NOT behind the release? That instead it's the "Clinton '08" campaign who got them to Burkett knowing he would use them?
Burket probably put memo's on a fax broadcast and spammed everyone he could. After that everyone probably reinforced each other wish that these were legitimate docs.
Burkett created Memo ======> Texas DNC hooks Burkett up with contact info leading to to Cleland ======> Burkett Provides Docs to Cleland ======> OK'd from Kerry ======> Cleland gave ok to fax to CBS News....
And the missing link....CBS 'unimpeachable authority' ======> Former Senator Cleland.
That, and protecting Cleland, and by extension the Kerry campaign is why Rather was in Texas, and hooked up with Burkett.
I do know for a fact that Cleland has been working very hard on the military vote for the Kerry campaign. He's been the brains behind their strategy to target military voters in swing states.
Also, wasn't he in Texas quite recently doing a PR stunt outside the gates at Crawford?
I doubt there was any time logged since last year. She simply had a file that was 4 years old. They used this fact to butress the original story.
He seems to have dropped this political grenade on himself.
Up for a beer? :)
Tracing the fake documents, do you think there was a some sort of hand-off between him and Burkett?
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