Reported on Fox News Cable! Burkett claims Joe Lockhart pressured him to give the documents to him!

Fox News (cable) Fox and Friends | Semptember 24, 2004 | FOX NEWS

[stockpirate]

Just reported on Fox News, Fox and Friends, that Burkett is quoted in an article as stating that Joe Lockhart of the Kerry campaign pressured Burkett to release the documents to him!

[stockpirate]

It is possible that someone in the DNC/Kerry campaign created the documents than passed them to Burkett who then passed them back to the Kerry camp. With the first link to the campaign unknown to Burkett!

[Prospero]

I Remember going fishing with a South Florida Congressman in the late Summer of '72, asking him whether there was any legs, essentially, to this "Watergate thing."

"Oh, sure," he told me. "There's lot's more. But it will take a while for it all to come out."

Dick got a huge landslide, and resigned less than two years later.

Takes a while for these things to matter. If you haven't made up your mind which of these guys is going to be president, I'm inclined to think you should follow your "who ya going to believe" instincts, and stay home... please. Hey, Rock the Vote, will ya?

I never would have believed Rather actually going down over this, even while participating in the Pajama Party that exposed the fraud. Now he's breaking with the executives, who have to answer to the bottomline. I think he's toast, now. Suppose Rather tapes his conversations? Too much to ask, eh?

Does anyone else think it's strange that Tony "the Screw" Coelho insists 'the DNC' has known about htese memos for months, and that Lockhart only came on board right about the time of Clinton's ticker problems?

Burkett may be a patsy, but I wonder if Lockhart isn't a voluntary smoke screen fall guy, too...

Kerry knew...

But I want Kerry to go down for his shameful, brazen compromise of our troops morale in Iraq and the safety of our people at home, today...

The guy is consistent in one area at least...he really hates his country.

[Maceman]

Burkett is a nut. Anything he says is suspect.

Well, according to Dan Rather, he is an unimpeachable source.

[hansel]

Any chance of a leak of JFK military records? Or, if he has already signed the 180 for Brinkley, that O'Neill has the docs?

[Cboldt]

The odds that kerry referenced the same bogus manual in April as the CBS memo's did in September by chance are outrageous.

IIRC, the genuine documents released by Bush contained the so-called bogus reference. The reference is to a real section of the AF manual, it presrcibes the penalties for failing to follow an order, but does not prescribe the regulation that mandates the medical examination.

I can imagine the DNC using that reference, and in an incorrect way. Lots of DEMs have been fixated on Bush's records, and attempting to fill in the gaps that would make a "slam dunk" case against Bush's TexANG service.

[Semper Paratus]

Kerry is going to say that he thought Lucy Rameirez was the wife a famous Red Sox slugger.

[stockpirate]

Is John Kerry a War Criminal and a Traitor?

Consider the following.

After the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong were decimated, the North Vietnam Communists were beaten, but with the Socialist leaning press in America and the VVAW’s antiwar protests the North Vietnamese Communists decided to hold on. John Kerry did not join VVAW until after his return from Vietnam in early 1969, and until then VVAW didn’t have very many members (8,500) and were not very successful at getting heard. The FBI reports that VVAW was nearly inactive until the Moratoriums in the fall of 1969. See pg 90 So, the press and the antiwar movement in America prevented the North Vietnamese Communists from surrendering.

This meant that instead of a US victory in South Vietnam and freedom for the South Vietnamese we had about 10,000 more US deaths from the time John Kerry came on board with the VVAW until the end of the war. America’s POW's were being tortured while listening to tapes of John "Traitor" Kerry calling them baby killers. America’s brave soldiers were dieing in the jungles of Vietnam and John Kerry

The VVAW, an antiwar group, founded in the spring of 1967, which Kerry was one of the national leaders of, was receiving directions from the North Vietnamese Communist Government. VVAW in contact with in contact with NV Communist Government

The directions were on how the VVAW should protest the Vietnam War.

The interaction became so depraved, that the North Vietnamese Communist contacted the VVAW via a phone call and advised the VVAW that they were getting ready to start an attack on US troops and that the VVAW was to be prepared to increase the protests against the increase in bombing that the NV Communists were sure would happen. This put our men in further danger because of John Kerry and VVAW actions. VVAW gets directions from the North Vietnamese Communists

Al Hubbard, a leader of the VVAW briefed the NV, Soviets and other communist countries concerning “Electronic Battlefield Vietnam” as to tactics, methods and equipment which put US troops at extreme risk. Link to EBV

John Kerry had no concern for the lives of his fellow soldiers in Vietnam or the POW's, John Kerry only cared about himself and his ambition to become POTUS, whatever the cost.

How many deaths of United States servicemen does John Kerry have on his hands?

How many families has John Kerry's behavior as a VVAW leader and a traitor to his country caused untold pain and suffering to?

How many unnecessary tears have been cried because John Kerry betrayed our trust to help a Communist government?

Does John Kerry still have ties to Communists in America?

John Kerry was an officer in the US Navy during his protests of the Vietnam War, having not received his discharge until 1978.

Why didn't John Kerry speak out just one time against the war crimes of his "Comrades in Arms the North Vietnamese Communists"?

Steven J. Pitkin says about his Winter Soldier testimony. “John Kerry and other leaders of that event pressured me to testify about American war crimes, despite my repeated statements that I could not honestly do so. One event leader strongly implied that I would not be provided transportation back to my home in Baltimore, Maryland, if I failed to comply. Kerry and other leaders of the event instructed me to publicly state that I had witnessed incidents of rape, brutality, atrocities and racism, knowing that such statements would necessarily be untrue.”

I've also been wondering why Kerry never reported the atrocities he supposedly witnessed while in Vietnam. Maybe because Kerry may have never witnessed any atrocities while he was in Vietnam. The VVAW leaders were meeting with the North Vietnamese Communist Government, leaders of the Communist Party in Moscow, and possibly the KGB, leaders of the Communist Party International in Paris, leaders of the Communist Party USA, and last but not least the group of Communists in South Vietnam that backed the North Vietnamese Communists.

These Communist groups were directing the VVAW leaders as to what they wanted them to do, when they wanted them to do it, and that is what the VVAW did.

So in a nutshell, when the world communist leaders told Kerry and his VVAW group what to do, that is what they did, no questions asked.

[sirchtruth]

It is possible that someone in the DNC/Kerry campaign created the documents than passed them to Burkett...

Of course it is, but that does make Burkett any LESS a LOON and a LIAR!

[Sacajaweau]

The biggest and scariest part of this is that Burkett claims to have had 4 seizures since he started this whole thing. How does a million per seizure sound?

How does a walk in the park sound? This is about the same circumstances that Vince Foster was in when he forged his suicide note.

And Hillary is soooooooo quiet. Why??

[stockpirate]

And there is this posted by FReeper fedora

According to Newsweek magazine, Kerry met with Liu Chaohying, a Hong Kong businesswoman who wanted to have her company listed on the U.S. Stock Exchange. Kerry lobbied on her behalf by helping to organize a meeting between Liu Chaohying and a senior Securities and Exchange (SEC) official.

In return, Kerry accepted a $10,000 contribution in the form of a Beverly Hills Fundraise on Sept 9, 1996, less than a month before the election, Newsweek reported.

It would later be established that Liu Chaohying was not simply a profit-motivated businesswoman, but rather a lieutenant colonel in the Communist China's Peoples Liberation Army.

Newsweek reported that more than $28,000 in illegal contributions were funneled into the campaign of then President Bill Clinton and Kerry, and that "the contributions came out of $300,00 in overseas wire transfers sent on orders from the chief of the Chinese military intelligence - and routed through a Hong Kong bank account controlled by Liu Chaohying."

[Cboldt]

Any chance of a leak of JFK military records? Or, if he has already signed the 180 for Brinkley, that O'Neill has the docs?

Kerry's personal records are, and should be, secure. But if he chooses to keep them private, the media should not give him a pass and let him say that all have been reviewd by the media or the public.

There may be some general records, after action reports and the like, that haven't made their way to public view. I think over the course of time, all will be clear about this bad person, John Kerry.

[dc-zoo]

This is and will continue to come together into focus like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Let's keep on digging freepers. This is getting very interesting.

[rintense]

First of all, anything Burkett says needs to be taken with a grain of salt- he's pretty unstable. That said, this is looking more and more like a Clinton sabotage to me... all this memogate stuff begins AFTER the Kerry camp brings in the Clinton advisors. No accident at all, IMHO.

[ValerieUSA]

Joe Lockhart was hired for the Kerry campaign because he has such extensive experience at lying to the press and the American public on behalf of his boss. He can lie, and lie happily, every single day about any and all topics. What a team player!
The buck does NOT stop at Joe -- it goes all the way to the top, just as it always did.

[Brilliant]

If Burkett shows up dead, you'll know who is behind it.

[LowOiL]

I like your tag line...Short rhymes and stings

[ValerieUSA]

"The problem was we had one set of documents from Bush's file that had Killian calling Bush 'an exceptionally fine young officer and pilot.' And someone who Killian said 'performed in an outstanding manner.' Then you have these new documents and the tone and content are so different."

Where is the BIG breaking network news magazine story about these GENUINE documents? This needs to be aired immediately to shut up the ridiculous, but oft-repeated, allegation that the content of the forged documents was valid. *rolling eyes* There are legions of callers across the country contending this on radio talk shows every day.

[Space Wrangler]

I watched Lockhart squirm when describing his phone call with Burkett and I knew immediately that he had something to hide. Joe's a poor liar. It was rather easy to see that his self described "short phone call from a supporter wanting to discuss political strategy" was much more than he said. The Kerry campaign is in this thing up to their eye-balls. This story seems to be moving at the speed of light, with every day offering some new outrageous detail about how this story got to air. At this rate, this is going to be the story that defines the '04 election. I can't wait to see Ann Coulter's "anatomy of a smear" story on this!

[r9etb]

I think the one who stands to lose most here is Burkett. They'll shred him -- "we realized right away that he was a whack-job...."

[Marysecretary]

Lockhart always looked like a deer in headlights to me. It WILL be fun to play this one out.