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White House Spokesman Links Burkett Forgeries to Senior Level Kerry Campaign Operatives
ABC News ^ | 9/20/04

Posted on 09/20/2004 11:54:38 AM PDT by gopwinsin04

'There are a number of serious questions that remain unanswered and they need to be answered,' says White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

'Bill Burkett, who CBS says now was their source, is not an unimpeachable source, as CBS has claimed.'

'There are news reports of Burkett having senior level contact with the Kerry campaign. That raises questions.'

'What were those contacts and what was discussed? Who is the original source of the documents?'

'Who is responsible for forging these documents?

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbs; cbsnews; forgery; killian; rather; rathergate; seebsnews
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To: Quicksilver

I think it might have been Cleland instead of Kerry..Carl travels with the Kerry campaign.


121 posted on 09/20/2004 12:24:38 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
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To: gopwinsin04
A November landslide would be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

Democrats wouldn't have anything legitimate to whine about. Their growing leftist fringe will just continue to draw more Americans away from the party and expose the growing band of leftist kooks for what they are.

Get the popcorn ready folks. November 2 is most possibly going to be a lot of fun.

122 posted on 09/20/2004 12:24:41 PM PDT by SaveTheChief ("It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech." - Senator Zell Miller)
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To: GoLightly

This one is more like Watergate than any of the others.

Like Watergate, it involves a campaign to elect a President. Crimes were committed and the candidate was toast because he covered up the names of the people involved with the planning and execution of the crime.

This is worse than Watergate, because the underlying crime there was a "third rate burglary". Here, it was a fraud and a conspiracy involving one of the leading news agencies in the US and the World.


123 posted on 09/20/2004 12:24:57 PM PDT by Piranha
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To: Fear-God-Not-man

ping


124 posted on 09/20/2004 12:25:30 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: fortheDeclaration
Ofcourse, CBS is still leaving open the possiblity that they were duped by the GOP.

It was a Bush-Cheney-Rove conspiracy, worked out on a strategic chessboard where the figures represented various vulnerable Democratic characters and movements to certain squares represented actions those characters would take if the Repubs did this or that...much the same way a play-calling football coach detailing his analysis of what the opposition will do in response to certain gamebreaker plays.

There's at least one major problem for CBS to keep introducing this possible ploy: IT MUST CONCEDE THAT INDEED THE DEMS AND THEMS ARE ON THE SAME TEAM. Yeah, I know, what's so big about confessing what is already obvious to all? It's called the veneer of objectivity.

125 posted on 09/20/2004 12:25:45 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: katana

The slow blade.....


126 posted on 09/20/2004 12:26:01 PM PDT by Radix (This Tag line is fake, but the contents are real.)
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To: BJungNan

Kerry Campaign spokespersons now admit there is an upside to the memo scandal. While Kerry had not given press interviews for six weeks and was taking more heat than a space shuttle O-Ring over it, the Rather flap has moved press demands over toward Rather and CBS for the time being................Kerry press secretary McCurry now announced a revised candidate availability schedule for the balance of the campaign. He will be available for a turkey supper on November 25th for questions.


127 posted on 09/20/2004 12:26:30 PM PDT by blackdog (Proudly wearing Free Republic pajamas, just to piss off Dan Rather.)
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To: NOTTAHERO

Interesting...IIRC, in August Burkett posted an e-mail to 500+ Democrat contacts; it's been mentioned as hinting at dirty tricks to come. Was Rather's daughter on that list?


128 posted on 09/20/2004 12:26:40 PM PDT by Clioman
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To: BJungNan

Agree. My CBS station manager isn't taking any calls.

Anyone want to take a bet on when Cameron's book is coming out? (This is just pure speculation on my part.) But, this is the second campaign that he's covered for FOX.


129 posted on 09/20/2004 12:26:50 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 (Proud to be a Reagan Republican)
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To: Huck
I just LOVE that Cleland is mixed up in this now.

Yeah, who'd have thought he'd out on a limb for Kerry?
< /bad taste>

130 posted on 09/20/2004 12:27:00 PM PDT by TheRightGuy (ERROR CODE 018974523: Random Tagline Compiler Failure)
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To: dano1

Find the money and follow the money.


131 posted on 09/20/2004 12:27:11 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (Texas Songwriter)
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To: gopwinsin04
You know what would be great? If the McClellan would display one of those family tree/flow charts that the NY Times and Newsweek produced to link the Swift Vets to the Bush campaign.
132 posted on 09/20/2004 12:28:16 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (The Final Score: Buckhead 1, Talking Head 0)
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To: TheRightGuy

Better than Cleland stumping for Kerry.........


133 posted on 09/20/2004 12:28:56 PM PDT by blackdog (Proudly wearing Free Republic pajamas, just to piss off Dan Rather.)
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To: TheRightGuy

Maybe he did the typing! (ouch!)


134 posted on 09/20/2004 12:29:03 PM PDT by Huck ("Winners don't need to hijack airplanes. Winners have an air force." --P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: petercooper
DUmmies labeling Buckhead as the culprit

< shakes head > If Rove didn't exist, they'd have to invent him. They are completely, utterly irrational at this point.

135 posted on 09/20/2004 12:29:32 PM PDT by TheBigB (Souveniiiirs, noooovelties, paaaarty tricks...)
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To: blackdog
Better than Cleland stumping for Kerry.........

Ouch! That's good.

136 posted on 09/20/2004 12:29:48 PM PDT by Huck ("Winners don't need to hijack airplanes. Winners have an air force." --P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: gopwinsin04
'Who is responsible for forging these documents?

Best Howard Cosell voice : DOWN GOES KERRY DOWN GOES KERRY!

137 posted on 09/20/2004 12:31:02 PM PDT by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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To: Huck

I said it at a cost. My go to hell record just took two more registers for saying that. I'll go feed some meals on wheels to make up for it though!


138 posted on 09/20/2004 12:31:35 PM PDT by blackdog (Proudly wearing Free Republic pajamas, just to piss off Dan Rather.)
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To: Jewels1091

Or is it going to be dropped???????

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It will be dropped.


139 posted on 09/20/2004 12:31:43 PM PDT by BoBToMatoE
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HARK!

To: Tom Oliphant

Hi, girl, you obtained the Pentagon Papers for the Globe in 1971.

Who ran the CBS faked documents by you for approval? It was obvious that you were aware of their existence.

Just asking.

!!!

140 posted on 09/20/2004 12:32:01 PM PDT by Cai Della
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