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"Bill did not go to CBS, CBS came to him. CBS spent all summer trying to pressure and coax Bill into letting them have copies of the documents that they believed he had"

Okay. Let me get this straight.

So, Billybobboy didn't have the documents.

But CBS thought he did.

And kept pressuring him to cough them up.

But he didn't have them.

But then he, all of the sudden, did have them!

How handy!

How convenient!

And then, he gave them to CBS. Who identified him as their unidentified "unimpeachable" source (man, you can't make this stuff up).

So that they could then "burn" Billbobboy and make him out to be a corrupt, psycho, evil, nut.

Which in turn casts a rather dubious light on CBS' news judgment, character judgment, not to say, basic intelligence.

They intended all along to "burn" their "unimpeachable" source.

These guys must have something really, really big to hide, something really, really criminal, to be so incoherent.

Mr. Van Os, if you're gonna lie to us, at least tell lies that are internally consistent.

LOL.

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So, after years of sleepless nights thinking about this Bush-TANGle, Mapes ID's Burkett as just the kind of former Guard type to have and "get down and dirty with" such incriminating documents as would fit the agenda she's got in mind. Heck, Burkett was so gullible and willing, that one would only need to vaguely suggest a cover story and have Billy glom onto it, if it would take Bush down and get him a cushy patronage job into his golden years.

If anything should go wrong, Mary does plan to leave Burkett holding the bag, so Mary, as Lucy, tells Burkett where to receive the documents, but her husband or cohort actually gives them to her, lest Burkett recognize her.

The memos ham-fistedly contain known Army'isms, so as to implicate Burkett. Mary has hours of Burkett tape interview material from which to pour Burkett-sounding "orders." Mary's feminine (?), practiced handwriting pens Killian's signature.

Mary doesn't expect to have the forgery found out because she thinks the whole story will get the Wilson-Pflame and Clarke treatment - a discussion of characters and ideas, not of typography. If forgery eventually comes up, it'll be hung around Burkett's neck, long after the monkey has been on Bush's back long enough to shave him down a point or two in key battleground states come election day.

Things just didn't turn out like you expected, did they, Mary? Burkett now thinks Lucy just might've connived to set him up, just like Mary would've. Burkett's wondering how she's always been able to get that big story at CBS, like they've been saying recently, so that liar wants to sue.