Rathergate's dangling threads [Calling All Potential "BUCKHEADS"!]

Powerline ^ | Jan. 18, 2005 | Scott W. Johnson

[CedarDave]

Just have to love it -- time for the blogs and FR to go after CBS.

[conservativecorner]

cBS thought they could get away with a whitewash, but it ain't gonna happen. What did you know Dan, and when did you know it? How ironic that Dan and cBS are guilty of the very thing that made Dan famous. WATERGATE! There is a God, and he has a sense of humor.

[CedarDave]

Previous FR thread with the Weekly Standard story here (but more is better in this case):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322746/posts

[IncPen]

(3) Who is Lucy Ramirez? The last time he spoke publicly, Bill Burkett claimed that he had been contacted by a woman named Lucy Ramirez, who told him about the Texas Air National Guard memos from 1972 and arranged to get them to Burkett. Is "Lucy Ramirez," like Burkett, an activist or blogger in the Texas area who has made something of a hobby of opposing George W. Bush? Does this woman even exist?

My prediction:
Lucy Ramirez = Sid Blumenthal

[marty60]

The only interesting Michael Smith I found in Texas, was a Charles Michael Smith Convicted of Cyber crime in 2002, sentenced to 120 months fed time.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Chad Clanton again. He's the guy who threatened Sinclair Broadcasting over their Swift Boat tape airing. I believe he's from Texas. He could well be one of the Kerry connections between Robin Rather and the rest of the Democrat stooges.

[bvw]

My two-bits (0.25 $US) is up for hindrocket to claim if he'll take a bet. The bet? That Conn is a genuine human being, and not just a phonied up DoD record. I say not a man born of woman.

[YaYa123]

The Weekly Standard has no questions about Max Cleland's involvement? I hope we don't find out down the road that even TWS will protect former senators.

[Monti Cello]

Haha! This is like dropping an ant farm in Dan Rather's pants. This is a story that would traditionally be easily swept away by the media into the dustbin of history. There is obvious malfeasance, and numerous angles to pursue, but especially with Rather leaving in a few months and the election over, the press would rather 'move on'.

The ultimate question, 'was Rather the duper or the dupee' takes a little more digging. Like Scott Peterson and OJ Simpson, Rather's behavior pattern suggests he is the perp, not a victim.

[conservativecorner]

I'm trying to picture him in drag. LOL!!

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!!

I'd like to know precisely what role, if any, Robin Rather played in the scandal.

[pepperdog]

Goggled up the following liberal spew:

http://www.mindspace.org/liberation-news-service/archives/000537.html

It says that Conn is a civilian employee of the U.S. Army in Germany.

[Uncle George]

The MOST important thing for the bloggers is to recruit an army of experts to examine and declare, once and for all that the memos are FAKES. This is the pathway to a Federal investigation of forgery of government documents. This is the keystone to destroying the biased,lib CBS and all their MSM accomplices.

[mdcen]

We need to find an expert in tracking copies. All copiers leave tracks! For example, if the original were copied at Kinkos, and that copier had dots (dirt specs) on the glass or smudges, that would carry onto the next copy etc. It might be a way to find out where the documents originated. Any Ex-Xeriods(Xerox copier reps) out there?

[dannyboy72]

Lucy Ramirez is Dan Rather's daughter. We need to do some digging on Ms. Rather's schedule around this time.

[redheadtoo]

Rumor is that Dan Rather is going to be let go via a back door firing. He is leaving his anchor chair and staying on at Sixty Minutes Wednesday. But scuttlebutt says that the network will be canceling that show. The original Sixty Minutes, on Sunday nights, will not take Rather back. Hence, the network gets rid of him without having to officially fire him. Sweet.

[cpdiii]

I have always wondered if Burkett was not set up by the Kerry campaign or cBS news.

They know they have a nut case on their hands that will do everything in his power to destroy Bush. They then forge the documents and give them to Burkett and Burkett believes they are real. Burkett then becomes the willing stooge in getting the documents to cBS News. Whoever did the forgery knew it would be discovered but had no idea the speed of discovery. They were hoping to sway the election before it was discovered. (Free Republic at its best!)

The question is who forged the documents.

1. Mappes ????
2. A Kerry staffer ????
3. Burkett himself ????
4. Ben Barnes or an underling of his ???
5. Rather's daughter ???

When and if Burkett is prosecuted follow the money. If he gets high profile expensive lawyers we must find out who is footing the bill and the story will be solved. If he is allowed to go down alone he did it alone.

CBS has failed the Absence of Malice test by a wide margin. They are libel in a suit by President Bust and I hope he goes after them. Burkett, if the perpetrator, has committed multiple felonious criminal acts that violate Texas law and Federal Law including interstate wire fraud. He is in deep kimshee.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The whole place needs a house cleaning.

[Arrowhead1952]

We didn't call him George "The Conn Man" for the fun of it. When he was still in the TX Army National Guard, he tried to use his rank more often than not to get his way.