Posted on 09/19/2004 9:40:13 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Burkett?
Rather?
Rather's daughter?
Mapes?
Cleland?
All of the above?
Righto, Danny. Just take a number over there by the donut tray. It'll be a couple of weeks or so before they call yours. So just kick back, get fat, and watch the pro's.
Not to mention that it was Kerry's home newspaper newspaper the Boston Globe that printed the equivalent of "forged photos" and claimed they were really from Abu Ghraib. Wonder who fed those to them?
Do you think you could sell this (literally and figuratively) to the New York Times? < /sarc>
That's nice - we still ought to make sure that CBS does not "mediate" any debate; let Fox News do it, or if you must use one that's just a bit less biased than CBS, use Al Jazeera 8^D
CBS is history in my home unless they come clean with the public. It burns me that I won't be watching the season premieres this week of Everybody Love Raymond, King of Queens, etc. I refuse to patronize a station that was involved in trying to influence a Presidential election by using forged documents. It's criminal.
It would be a reasonable assumption that whatever was on the tapes, it didn't match the transcripts.
Statement from RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Christine Iverson
202-863-8614
Washington, DC-RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke made the following statement today
"Bill Burkett, Democrat activist and Kerry campaign supporter, passes information to the DNC; Kerry campaign surrogate Max Cleland discusses "valuable" information with Bill Burkett; Bill Burkett talks to "senior" Kerry campaign officials; an apparently unsuspecting news organization uses faked forged memos and an interview with Ben Barnes at the same time the Democratic National Committee launched Operation Fortunate Son; and Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill was among the first to call Ben Barnes and congratulate him after his interview. The trail of connections is becoming increasingly clear."
It is like falling in love...You will not look at the faults ,but idolize the assets of the person...That's what they did.... fell in love with advancing the story and could not see the faults of the new additions to the same old story..
I noticed a line from one of the soldiers in Iraq giving a pep talk to others on a clip on Ollie North's war stories show Sunday said something in reference to purple heart medals roughly along the lines of "None of our wounded guys took an an easy out..."
I thought Mapes lived in Texas unless this was a few years ago.CBS producer Mary Mapes, who lives in Texas
Sept. 10, 2004
KVI's John Carlson said Mary Mapes use to be a News producer at KIRO TV in Seattle until moving on to CBS 60 Minutes about 10-12 years ago. He worked with her and said she was the most liberal person at KIRO and had a very leftist view when producing the news program. John said when he heard the story break at CBS, that he bet Mary Mapes is behind it. It has been announced that Mary was the one to go out and obtain the bogus documents.
Mapes father called his program and agreed with Carlson.
(Maybe next they'll find a Donald Segretti correspondence course on political activism in Burkett's bookshelf? ;-)
Oh, might not be a good idea. If he stays on he serves as a reminder that some of the press has been lying and carrying Kerry's water all along.
Thanks, guess I stumbled on it early. That's what I love about FR; everything's here as it breaks!
Ms. Mapes has other problems as well:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=3853
Rathergate producer Mapes needs to get a lawyer
September 17th, 2004
American Thinker exclusive
Mary Mapes, producer of the Rathergate fiasco, soon may have federal law enforcement officials knocking on her door, if a press story today holds water. In what could be another blow to the already scandal ridden Dan Rather and CBS News, Joe Flint of the Wall Street Journal (as made available to nonsubscribers in today’s San Francisco Chronicle), has a stunning lede about Dan Rather’s producer:
After she uncovered photos of abuse at Iraq's Abu Gharib [sic] prison, "60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes told a newspaper interviewer that she'd "never had a story that reverberated like this."
Mary Mapes didn’t “uncover” anything. My article in The American Thinker on May 14, 2004 makes it clear that the incriminating photos of prisoner abuse and the reports of the Army’s multiple investigations were extremely sensitive in two ways: one, they were classified as Secret, and two, the documents were evidence in an ongoing criminal investigation of US Soldiers. As I noted in the article,
Whoever disclosed this classified document and the photos knows that he or she is subject to prosecution under provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It would require a very foolish, or a very powerful and well-connected party, to believe that they could get away with this sort of disclosure. To date, the press is singularly uninterested in the question of who did the leaking.
And not only was the major press uninterested in who disclosed these materials, which could lead to criminal charges, but were also not interested in who received them, which, for a civilian, could lead to a trip to a federal magistrate’s courtroom. Thanks to Joe Flint, we mny have our answer!
This is no small technicality under the law. From the soldiers’ and their commanders’ perspective, maintaining the proper chain of custody of the evidence is paramount. The Taguba investigation stresses this point,
Due to the extremely sensitive nature of these photographs and videos, the ongoing CID investigation, and the potential for the criminal prosecution of several suspects, the photographic evidence is not included in the body of my investigation. The pictures and videos are available from the Criminal Investigative Command and the CTJF-7 prosecution team.
While it can be argued that the government has no role in the Rathergate National Guard memo fiasco, it’s a different matter entirely when an unauthorized person accepts classified documents and material relating to a federal criminal prosecution.
Mary Mapes and CBS may now find themselves the targets of an FBI investigation with serious national security and criminal implications.
Douglas Hanson is our military affairs correspondent
Douglas Hanson
Actually a documented chain of custody is very useful.
At trail.
. . . "a producer had told her that the source of the documents had said they were obtained anonymously and through the mail."The true answer:
Oh, but Dan, you said they were from an unimpeachable source. Inquiring minds want to know how you came to that conclusion...
The scene: Dan Rather's posh apartment somewhere near 34th Street in New York
Late one night, Dan Rather was pondering how he could present these "documents" that came to him through the mail. They were a gift from an anonymous source. These documents PROVED that which he so ardently believed to be true (despite the total lack of evidence to back his faith): that George Bush, President of the United States, was a lying sack of, well, excrement.
As Dan pondered, he was idly watching his TV, not paying too much attention to the old movie that was playing. Suddenly, his ears perked up as Fred Gailey (played by John Payne) convinced New York Supreme Court Judge Henry X. Harper (Gene Lockhart) that the U.S. Post Office, an officially recognized arm of the United States Government, was an unimpeachable source and that Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn), was the one, true Santa Claus!
Dan, leaping to his feet, cried out "Eureka!" I have received these memos from an "unimpeachable" source: The United States Post Office!" "Yes," he thought as he looked up at the movie rolling its final credits, "It really IS a miracle on 34th Street!"
Dan went to bed that night gleeful with visions of President Kerry (played by Fred Gwynne) and Susan Walker (played by little Natalie Wood) finding a new house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The End...
of the beginning!
We still need...
Good point. I'm laughing if they think their story is airtight and that Kerry's campaign is safe. A million bright people are going over every word with a fine-tooth comb and are collaborating with one another. They can't hide anything, lol!
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