Is this the guy who started it all?
Is this the guy who started it all?
That guy could be Michael Moore's half-brother.
I've been having trouble pulling up the "News & Opinion" page on www.Vote.com. Anyone know what's going on?
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This is what happens when you sit at your computer forging doc instead of taking care of the farm.
Part of Harkins nefarious organization?
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Heldt to Harkin to Mapes to Rather? Rather's unimpeachable source is Sen. Tom Harkin?
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Mr. Ashcroft please prosecute this turd.
I understand that the investigation of the CBS forgeries has been turned over to the same crack team of investigators working on the Berger document thefts and the memos of the dem members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. This task force is headed by a director appointed by President Clinton and Attorney General Reno. It expects to issue a comprehensive, detailed report - never!
From spectator.org:
REPORTERS ARE ALSO LOOKING at staff and associates of Sen. Tom Harkin, who enthusiastically held a press conference on Thursday morning using the forged documents as the tent pole for attacks against President Bush. Harkin called Bush a "liar."
"Harkin has been pushing this story for a while," says the CBS producer. "Not this specific story, but the 'Bush is a liar about his record' story. His people seemed particularly interested in making sure they could keep their boss up to date on what was going on."
I found this late last night:
The Raw Story 9/12/2004
Source for CBS memos ‘disgruntled officer;’ Kerry camp readies attack team
Filed under: General— site admin @ 8:54 pm
A principal source for the CBS story about President Bush’s National Guard duty was Bill Burkett, a disgruntled former Guard officer, who says he was present at Guard headquarters in Austin in 1997 when a top aide to then Governor Bush ordered records sanitized to protect himself, Newsweek will report Monday. Typed memos from the early ’70s suggesting officers were pressured to give Bush special treatment and “sugarcoat” increasingly negative evaluations were a central part of the CBS 60 Minutes report.
Meanwhile, Sen. John Kerry is preparing to attack President Bush’s failure to complete his term of service in the National Guard, as well as a new relevation that Bush once lied about having served in the Air Force (story on Raw Story front page).
Other Guard officials disputed Burkett’s account and the Bush aide involved, Joe Allbaugh, called it “absolute garbage.” Burkett may have a motive to make trouble for the powers that be. In 1998, he grew gravely ill on a Guard mission to Panama, causing him to be hospitalized, and he suffered two nervous breakdowns. He unsuccessfully sued for medical expenses.
Still, in theory, Burkett may have had access to any Guard records that, in a friend’s words, “didn’t make it to the shredder,” report Chief Political Correspondent Howard Fineman and Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff. Fellow officers say Burkett wasn’t a crank, but rather a stickler for proper procedure-a classic whistle-blower type. Burkett was impressive enough to cause CBS producer Mary Mapes to fly to Texas to interview him. “There are only a couple of guys I would trust to be as perfectly honest and upfront as Bill,” said Dennis Adams, a former Guard colleague. The White House, through Communications Director Dan Bartlett, called Burkett a “discredited source.”
Newsweek also reports that a hard-core group within the John Kerry campaign is setting up a new “oppo” squad aimed at countering what they perceive as Republican-backed smears against Kerry. Tentatively called Sealords II-Kerry’s Mekong Delta mission in Vietnam was known as Sealords – the group has a $1 million budget and will be housed at the Democratic National Committee, where, one of its members says, the mission will be “message, debate prep, attack, attack.”
Also a link to the six docs:
http://www.challengerdisaster.info/Six%20Alleged%20Jerry%20Killian%20documents.pdf
OETR. The 18 AUG 73 memo mentions Bush's OETR. It should be OER (officer efficiency report). IMO, "OETR" is the smoking gun. Prior to Heldt's "discovery", had "OETR" ever been used in regard to Bush's military service or any other service member from that period?
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I was thinking that we could develope a profile of the forger.
The forger obviously never used a typewriter, so that may indicate someone 30 or younger.
There are things the forger got RIGHT, like the address of the 111th FIS. The forger may have learned this from the other TANG docs available on the net.
Then there's the things he/she got WRONG, like General Staudt being retired 18 months before the Aug 73 memo, the formatting of the memos, etc.
By adding all these things up and comparing them to the likely suspects being mentioned elsewhere, we could eliminate or pursue them as suspects