By the way, how can CBS claim to have had "absolute confidence" from "very reliable sources" that the memos were real, just based on Burkett throwing out a name, whom CBS obviously didn't speak to? Just who would CBS think a Bush hater with a nutter background should be trusted about anything? It is one thing to use the guy as a lead, another to rely on him. Crazy.
And both a reporter at the Boston Globe and one from Newsweek said publicly on TV last week that Burkett was *not* a reliable source. When even the rest of the media knows the guy's a loon, why did Dan Rather think he had the goods?