[dano1]

"CBS spent all summer trying to pressure and coax Bill into letting them have copies of the documents "

IMHO, this coaxing was also probably the reason for the phone call from Lockhart. It was a tacit green light to Burkett that he had the go ahead from the Kerry campaign to give the documents to CBS. I doubt that Lockhart came out and directly told Burkett to release the docs.

Lockhart may have just said something like "Yes, Bill, we need to be aggressive in responding to the Swift Vets". But both he and Burkett knew the context and Burkett would have been able to read Lockhart's "between the lines" meaning.

[Shermy]

IMHO, this coaxing was also probably the reason for the phone call from Lockhart. It was a tacit green light to Burkett that he had the go ahead from the Kerry campaign to give the documents to CBS.

Interesting...

[Cboldt]

IMHO, this coaxing was also probably the reason for the phone call from Lockhart.

I'm with you on the call from Kerry/DNC/Lockhart being the trigger to "go." But what I can't figure is how CBS knew of Burkett in the first place.

At any rate, the details aren't vitally important, in order to reach the conclusion that this was a DNC/CBS project. Neither could pull off the Fortunate Son campaign alone.