Good. This should be better to watch than a boxcar full of drunken clowns.
Posted on 09/21/2004 6:53:17 AM PDT by kattracks
The former Texas National Guard commander who supplied CBS with forged records on President Bush's National Guard service now plans to sue the network, his former lawyer said Tuesday.Burkett's one-time attorney, David Van Os, told the New York Sun that his former client had "several meetings with lawyers to determine the best course of action." He said the planned lawsuit would center on what he termed "defamation of character and libel." Van Os declined to name the attorneys who Burkett consulted, but a Tuesday New York Times report cited attorney Gabe Quintanilla as his lawyer, saying that his client got the suspect documents from an unnamed source at a Houston Livestock show.
Though Van Os maintained the source was "a Texas man with Air National Guard experience," USA Today named a woman, Lucy Ramirez, as the person who gave the documents to Burkett.
Efforts by CBS and other news organizations to track down Ramirez have so far been unsuccessful.
It was Mr. Burkett, not CBS, who was misled, Van Os told the Sun, explaining that ""60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes promised to protect his then-client with complete anonymity and would "expend both time and money authenticating" the memos.
"Bill leveled with [CBS] about his doubts over the papers, and they promised him they would take their time," Van Os insisted. But "they spent all of three days, maybe less, on authentication," he complained.
Based on the network's assurances of confidentiality, Burkett chose CBS over ABC News, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, Van Os said.
However, he told the Sun that he now thinks a CBS is "an organization with a total lack of moral or journalistic integrity."
This just keeps getting better and better.
It just keeps getting better....!
Heh heh heh!!!!
Popcorn time.
We couldn't ask for anything else here folks.....it's going to get messy for CBS & for Kerry.
Burkett's lawyer is going to sue CBS? LOLOL
Good. This should be better to watch than a boxcar full of drunken clowns.
Best place to find horse sh*t.
I'll be happy when people are embarrassed to publicly state they work for CBS, so they instead say they clean toilets, or work the streets for a living.
How can he sue?
He contradicted is own statements.
"a total lack of journalistic integrity......." Duh! What was your first clue?
This thing is going to end up in court with all sorts of discovery going on... and the White House isn't even going to be involved in it.....
How amusing...
The dogs have finished tearing up the carcass and have now begun to tear each other up. Will someone please get the shotgun?
This will keep Kerry off the front page until the election. What great news for the Republicans.
HAR HAR HAR
Well, at least he got that part right.
If he got those documents at a livestock show, he should have known that they were all BS.
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