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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: gopwinsin04; Just mythoughts
"And Carl Cameron is now reporting on FOX that Kerry had been pushing the 60 Minutes interview for weeks to the press scribes on the plane.."

It's good to know that these candidate beat reporters are not simply political hacks in disguise and who are not afraid to be bumped off of the Kerry plane. Wait a minute. This scandal's been goin' on for how long & Kerry's been saying this for how long and we're just now getting one smidgen of a report on this?

New Fox motto: We don't report (for weeks on end) and then you decide based upon the smidgens we do give you.

201 posted on 09/20/2004 12:53:54 PM PDT by Colofornian (Fox' apologetic: Well, at least that's still better than the total censorship of the other networks.)
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To: blackdog

LOL Good one.


202 posted on 09/20/2004 12:54:57 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Huck

Well, Cleland might have had A HAND in it.


203 posted on 09/20/2004 12:55:22 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon
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To: somerville
He was in Bush's year at Yale, and I don't think he likes him.

So was Lanny Davis IIRC.

204 posted on 09/20/2004 12:55:35 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (CBS, admit defeat and bow to the pajamahadeen)
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To: Colofornian
"Is it too early to introduce the new sequel, 2004 Democratic Convention II," for purposes of re-thinking Kerry as the candidate of CHOICE"

Legal or not, they will probably try something -- and get away with it. The only thing holding it up is that the DNC chairman is having difficulty deciding the proper choice of words to inform Kerry. Don't want to make him mad, you know. He'll sweat and rant for 47 minutes without taking a breath, and who wants to face that again?

205 posted on 09/20/2004 12:56:57 PM PDT by Eastbound ("Neither a Scrooge nor a Patsy be.")
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon

Well, Cleland might have had A HAND in it.

Isn't he third base for the Braves?


206 posted on 09/20/2004 12:56:59 PM PDT by burndoubt
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To: native texan

I never noticed, but yeah, I agree.


207 posted on 09/20/2004 12:57:37 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Freemyland

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1205038/posts


208 posted on 09/20/2004 12:58:33 PM PDT by kabar
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To: gopwinsin04
DUers, who up till recently were saying Karl Rove did all this, are now saying that we need to move on and talk about the issues...what a bunch of morons. They can't even stop switching horeses long enough to admit all their theories were DEAD WRONG!

I don't know if they are just pathetically funny or just pathetic...

209 posted on 09/20/2004 12:59:18 PM PDT by Lurking2Long
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To: Colofornian

Additionally, I thought that Kerry wasn't talking to the press for weeks on end. So, if I gather this correctly, Kerry can peddle stories to the MSM but they are not allowed to ask him any questions.

Uh-huh.


210 posted on 09/20/2004 12:59:30 PM PDT by mwl1
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To: blackdog

The CBS internal memo now says that Burkett is not a reliable source. LOL


211 posted on 09/20/2004 12:59:42 PM PDT by Fear-God-Not-man
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To: burndoubt

Ouch! You did mean to leave "man" off the base, didn't you?

Ouch!


212 posted on 09/20/2004 12:59:54 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon
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To: Wait4Truth

Cameron needs to keep it out of the report. Otherwise FOX becomes part of the story and loses it's impartiality. We should let it alone.


213 posted on 09/20/2004 1:00:03 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("Hold on to your hats.....it's going to be a bumpy night")
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To: dubyaismypresident

Most clintonites like Lanny Davis are motivated by two things. One is money and two is their own life. Carville is the only exception IMHO. If it were not for self enrichment, clinton would be who? Hillary would be an alderman in Chicago trying to get a seat on city counsel, running against dog catchers.


214 posted on 09/20/2004 1:00:17 PM PDT by blackdog (Proudly wearing Free Republic pajamas, just to piss off Dan Rather.)
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon

LOL....now I am REALLY going to hell...that's funny too! I guess he's a good man for the job, though. Won't leave any fingerprints!


215 posted on 09/20/2004 1:00:40 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: Lurking2Long

FOTFL BOTH!!


216 posted on 09/20/2004 1:01:26 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: burndoubt
I've heard Cleland is now a short story palm reader.....

More hell points again!

217 posted on 09/20/2004 1:02:26 PM PDT by blackdog (Proudly wearing Free Republic pajamas, just to piss off Dan Rather.)
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To: Colofornian
Andrew Heyward Internal E-Mail to CBS News Employees
Mon Sep 20 2004 13:25:11 ET

Dear CBS News Colleagues,

Many of you have expressed understandable concern about the disputed documents used in the 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY report on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard.

Obviously, 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY had full confidence in the original report or it would not have aired. However, in the wake of serious and disturbing questions that came up after the broadcast, CBS News has done extensive additional reporting in an effort to confirm the documents' authenticity. That included interviews with Marian Carr Knox, secretary to the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, the officer named as the author of the documents; an interview with Bill Burkett, the former Guard officer who provided the memos to 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY; and a further review of the forensic evidence on both sides of the debate.

Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.

Shouldn't they have done all of that before running the story?

218 posted on 09/20/2004 1:02:56 PM PDT by Fear-God-Not-man
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To: gopwinsin04

Please explain. Which 60 Minutes interview was Kerry pushing, and what do you mean by pushing?


219 posted on 09/20/2004 1:04:19 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: jonesb

The "Whitehouse" (sic) folks are doing just fine, Jonesb (2004-09-20).


220 posted on 09/20/2004 1:04:33 PM PDT by mtntop3 ("He who must know before he believes will never come to full knowledge.")
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