'A lawyer for Mr. Burkett, Gabe Quintanilla, said Monday that his client was given the documents at the livestock show in March, and kept them to himself because he did not know whether they were authentic.'
Well, this is the first I have heard of getting documents at a livestock show. Of course, I have heard of finding other things at such an event that would resemble the document in question...
good old USA today couldn't be bothered themselves to LOOK up burkett's wild accusations against Dubya or his known history of 2 nervous breakdowns.
Someone on Little Green Footballs' weblog noted that the version of the documents from Fox News' website had a creation date in February 2004. Interestingly, the version on CBS' website had a September creation date.
According to a post at Little Green Footballs (post no. 174 on the thread about the timestamps), someone alleges that he interviewed Burkett's former lawyer David Van Os, and that Van Os said Burkett was given a call in "the first week of February" by someone with experience in the Texas Air National Guard, telling him that they had come across these documents.
The poster's name is "rod".
It was in early February 2004 that Terry McAuliffe made his statements about President Bush having been AWOL during his service in the TANG.