Lockhart said he does not recall talking to Burkett about Bush's Guard records. "It's baseless to say the Kerry campaign had anything to do with this," he said.
Well.
I find it interesting that both Cleland and Lockhart make a point of saying their conversations with Burkett were 3-4 minutes (I'm pretty sure that's almost exactly the phrase Cleland used, too).
And we now have an "I don't recall". Why wouldn't he recall, I ask rhetorically.
"...both Cleland and Lockhart make a point of saying their conversations with Burkett were 3-4 minutes..."
"I just had 2 or 3 to drink, officer."
Lockhart on speaking with Burkett (from thread link):
Lockhart said he thanked Burkett for his advice after a three to four minute call.
Now here is Cleland from this link:
Parallels Drawn Between CBS Memos, Texan's Postings
excerpt:
Cleland confirmed that he had a two- or three-minute conversation by cell phone with a Texan named Burkett in mid-August while he was on a car ride. He remembers Burkett saying that he had "valuable" information about Bush, and asking what he should with it. "I told him to contact the [Kerry] campaign," Cleland said. "You get this information tens of times a day, and you don't know if it is legit or not."
~snip~
Hello, uh uh Sir, this is Senator Max Cleland and I seem to have auto-dialed this number by mistake. Is this the party to whom I am speaking? ... (waiting for response)
UmmmUmm Now I'm certain that this may be a wrong number but in order to verify that I'm going to count to three and ascribe a little phrase for you to remember each number by ; you just tell me which one of these numbers sounds the most familiar:
ONE- there are documents that will burn Bush's #&&
TWO- these documents are rock-solid and authentic
THREE- One and Two will cost somebody a Hundred G's
FOUR - Somebody was pulling my leg with this number.
Voice on the line... "I think I remember THREE."
Well Sir I'm sorry that I bothered you by mistake. I've gotta go I think 60 Minutes is coming on. click