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AUBURN, Ala. — An Auburn University student was murdered Tuesday night near campus. The victim, identified by Auburn police as 18-year-old Lauren A. Burk of Marietta, Ga., was shot to death. She was a freshman pledge with the school's Delta Gamma sorority, sources told FOX News.

It seems that the SEC is probing everyone these days, why did we hear so little about SEC probes under Clinton? Is there data available suggesting that the Bush administration has been more agressive with the SEC than Clinton?

Former Clinton political hitman James Carville, who recently touted New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for a 2008 presidential run, is reportedly behind an advertising campaign attacking President Bush for his 1990 sale of Harken Energy stock as well as his ties to the oil industry in general. American Family Voices, a group described by the New York Times as "secretive," has paid to run a 30-second commercial on cable news programs in Washington, D.C., and in New York through Thursday. The ad blasts President Bush as "sly like a fox" for talking down his dealings with Harken Energy, which Democrats...

DUBAI DUETS Late Friday, Department of Justice lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel were attempting to determine if former President Bill Clinton had registered as an "Agent of a Foreign Principal." Federal statute requires that anyone -- even a former President -- doing political or public affairs work on behalf of a foreign country, agency or official must register with the Department, and essentially update his status every six months. It was not clear the Clinton had done so. If his status is less clear, here is what we do know: If Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton did not know...

We have had a slight adjustment in the plans for the 5PM Saturday, April 22nd Meeting of the Heart of Texas Chapter of FreeRepublic.com. Our get-together will now be held at Kreuz's BBQ at 619 N. Colorado St. in Lockhart, Texas(25 miles SE of Austin and 35 miles NE of New Braunfels). Kreuz's BBQ is directly off of 183. Since we have a BBQ Controversy over who had the better BBQ in Lockhart, we have decided to switch to Kreuz's because of the facilities which include a separate meeting room and better bathrooms. For all of you investigative folks, here's...

The Heart of Texas Chapter of FreeRepublic.com April Meeting will be held at Blacks BBQ at 215 N Main St. in Lockhart, Texas(25 miles SE of Austin). We will start gathering at 5PM on Saturday, April 22nd.Blacks BBQ has often been called the best BBQ in Texas and has been owned by the same family since 1932. Bring yourselves and family and a healthy appetite for some FReeper Food and Fun. We hope to see y'all there.

George Soros is an exacting  taskmaster. In return for his money, he demands productivity. What he requires of employees and business associates in the investment world, Soros also demands from the political operatives he funds. “Mr. Soros isn't just writing checks and watching,” notes Wall Street Journalreporter Jeanne Cummings. “He is also imposing a business model on the notoriously unruly world of politics. He demands objective evidence of progress, and assigned an aide to monitor the groups he supports. He studies private polls to track the impact of an anti-Bush advertising campaign, and he is delivering his money in installments,...

THE NEW YORK OBSERVER will report tomorrow: 'Former 60 Minutes Wednesday executive editor Josh Howard has told colleagues that before he resigns, the 23-year CBS News veteran will demand that the network retract remarks by CBS president Leslie Moonves, correct its official story line and ultimately clear his name'... In the event of a lawsuit, Mr. Howard has told associates that he would like to see Moonves put under oath to talk about his own roles in the network's stubborn, hapless defense of the flawed segment on President Bush's National Guard service. Howard has also indicated to colleagues that he...

Unbeknownst to the Kerry camp when they decided to cooperate with cBS/NYT on the missing explosives story, they've effectively argued for the military action in Iraq... and in fact, are now supporting the notion that stalling at the U.N. was a waste of valuable time. According to John Kerry's spokesman, Joe Lockhart, "These explosives can be used to blow up airplanes, level buildings, attack our troops and detonate nuclear weapons. The Bush administration knew where this stockpile was, but took no action to secure the site. They were urgently and specifically informed that terrorists could be helping themselves to the...

In an Oct. 10 editorial titled "The Promise of the First Amendment," the publisher and chief executive of the New York Times opined that for a federal judge to imprison their reporter Judith Miller for contempt of court violates the press freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment. This argument misstates existing law and misunderstands the issues at stake.... The Times argues that "the press cannot perform its intended role if its sources of information -- particularly information about the government -- are cut off." Hence, Ms. Miller has a First Amendment right to refuse to respond to the subpoena. This...

A prosecutor's investigation into an apparent attempt by the Bush administration to punish a political opponent by revealing classified information has veered terribly off course. It threatens grievous harm to freedom of the press and the vital protection it provides against government misconduct. The reality of the threat was driven home, quite personally for us, last week, when a federal judge in Washington sentenced a Times reporter, Judith Miller, to up to 18 months in prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury. The panel is looking into who gave Robert Novak the name of a covert Central Intelligence...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 - President Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, testified on Friday to a federal grand jury investigating whether it was anyone at the White House who had illegally disclosed the name of a C.I.A. undercover officer to a newspaper columnist, a lawyer for Mr. Rove said. "He answered fully and truthfully every one of their questions," the lawyer, Robert Luskin, said. Mr. Luskin added that Mr. Rove, who testified for more than two hours, did not seek to avoid answering any question on legal grounds. A spokesman for the White House, Scott McClellan, said the testimony demonstrated...

  ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Lockhart To: Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:26 AM Subject: Debate wrap up Dear Fernando,Two presidential debates and two clear wins. John Kerry is going to be the next president of the United States, and more people know it now than just two short hours ago.Tonight, George Bush had another chance to make his case to the American people. Again he failed. Again, he showed that he is out of touch with reality on Iraq. Again, he offered no plan for jobs and no plan for cutting the cost of health care. Again,...

CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves said the independent panel investigating the network's report on President Bush's National Guard service probably wouldn't complete its work before the presidential election. The Sept. 8 report on CBS's "60 Minutes" news magazine relied on now-discredited documents. While the scrutiny of Viacom Inc.'s CBS has faded somewhat, some media pundits warn that the longer the panel's inquiry takes, the more unsettled it leaves CBS. And against the argument that the report should come after the election to avoid any unintended influence or distraction, some counter that a delay makes the network seem to be dragging its...

'A terrible blunder' "John Kerry, who has evidently decided to replace Howard Dean as the antiwar candidate, last weekend helped to magnify the terrorists' kidnap weapon," New York Times columnist William Safire writes. "In a scheduled commercial Kerry personally approved, just before charging that George Bush had no plan to get us out of Iraq, the Democratic campaign underscored the message [terrorist leader Abu Musab] Zarqawi has been sending: 'Americans,' said Kerry's announcer, 'are being kidnapped, held hostage, even beheaded.' "Though undoubtedly accurate, that paid evocation of horror by a political candidate is a terrible blunder. That's the sort of...

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Lokisfur asks: How come there is no federal criminal investigation into the CBS memos? We now have forged US military records that

POLITICS: Staff shake-ups. Debate one-liners. Unsubstantiated rumors. Dirty tricks. Terrorism. It must be October, and this must be an ­election year. "I called the guy,"(Burkett) Mr. Lockhart admitted to The Wall Street Journal. "We talked for three or four minutes about the swift-boat controversy. He believed our response was inadequate, that Kerry should push back about the Vietnam experience. I thanked him for his advice. End of the story." But it wasn't quite the end. Mike McCurry, another Kerry adviser, later said Mr. Lockhart told campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill about the conversation, and she, in turn, relayed it to...

The Fort Worth Star Telegram has retracted a quote from former Texas National Guard commander Bill Burkett, who reportedly had told the paper that top Kerry aide Joe Lockhart pressured him to share forged documents on President Bush's military record later broadcast by Dan Rather. The report - the first to implicate the Kerry campaign in the Rathergate scandal - sent shock waves through political circles on Friday. But by midday, the Telegram had posted a revised version of the report, explaining: "This article has been corrected from the version published in the newspaper and online Friday morning to reflect...

WE REALLY DON'T KNOW what a President John Kerry would do about Iraq. His flip-flops about the war, his inconsistencies, the ambiguity of his current position (win or withdraw?)--all of these mean we can only guess about a Kerry presidency. He would probably be inclined to get out of Iraq as soon as possible; it might be the case, however, that as president he would nonetheless find himself staying and fighting. Who knows? What we do know is this: Kerry and his advisers have behaved disgracefully this past week. That behavior is sufficient grounds for concern about his fitness to...

Politics: Sen. John Kerry and his crew have proved Sen. Zell Miller right. They really will say anything to get elected, even if that means undermining a courageous ally and greasing the skids to defeat in Iraq. It was the renegade Democrat Miller who roused the 2004 Republican convention and raised the ire of the taste police with lines like these: "Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrats' manic obsession to bring down our commander in chief." Strong...

Lokisfur asks: How come there is no federal criminal investigation into the CBS memos? We now have forged US military records that were aimed at undermining the US election process and bringing down the President of the United States .

As he described it, Bill Burkett was sick of the Kerry campaign's sheer ineptitude. A member of the Progressive Populist Caucus of the Texas Democratic Party and a retired Army National Guardsman, he became incensed as he watched his candidate's credibility suffer from TV ads sponsored by Swift Boat veterans, while Kerry and his staff bungled their responses. Burkett wanted to do something about it, and believed he had the means to do it. But Kerry's people weren't listening. In an Internet posting, he candidly wrote that he waded through "seven layers of bureaucratic kids trying to get a job...

We need to put some collective brainpower together! Who typed up the fake Killian memos? I don't think it was Burkett, here's why: 1) He would have done it years ago, and 2) The memo format was incorrect. Since he has been liveing and breathing this paperwork for years, he would not have created new ones with the incorrect format. I think the Kery camp/DNC kids typed them and laundered them to Burkett knowing Mapes was circling overhead. What do you think?

Democrats moved quickly to fuel skepticism, denouncing Allawi's message in unusually pointed terms. While Kerry was relatively restrained in disputing Allawi's upbeat portrayal, some of his aides suggested that the Iraqi leader was simply doing the bidding of the Bush administration, which helped arrange his appointment in June. "The last thing you want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost see the hand underneath the shirt today moving the lips," said Joe Lockhart, a senior Kerry adviser.

Just reported on Fox News, Fox and Friends, that Burkett is quoted in an article as stating that Joe Lockhart of the Kerry campaign pressured Burkett to release the documents to him!

Senior Kerry campaign adviser Joe Lockhart tried to convince Bill Burkett to give him the forgeries:During a single phone conversation with Lockhart, Burkett said he suggested a "couple of concepts on what I thought [Kerry] had to do" to beat Bush. In return, he said, Lockhart tried to "convince me as to why I should give them the documents."If Burkett is lying, Lockhart can prove it quite easily: by releasing his phone records for that day.

September 24, 2004 -- CLINTONISTA-turned- John-Kerry-strategist Joe Lockhart's account of his role in Memogate boils down to this: I did not have National Guard conversations with that man, Mr. Burkett. Even though Lockhart called Bill Burkett at the request of CBS producer Mary Mapes, who had alerted him that Burkett was providing records that Dan Rather planned to use to accuse President Bush of shirking National Guard duty. Lockhart's "I did not" claim may well turn out to be more truthful than ex-boss Bill Clinton's denial of sex with Monica Lewinsky. But if so, then Lockhart has gone from a...

FORT WORTH - The former Texas Air National Guard commander who gave CBS documents critical of President Bush's military service said he thinks the network has tried to make him the "fall guy" in the dispute over whether the memos are authentic. ADVERTISEMENT Bill Burkett, who lives on a ranch near Abilene, said he still believes the memos are real, but he said he warned CBS to independently verify the documents before airing them. CBS broadcast a story on Sept. 8 that accused Bush of using family connections to get into the Guard to avoid military service in Vietnam, and...

<p>Former National Guard commander Bill Burkett has become the first player in the CBS forged document scandal to implicate John Kerry's presidential campaign, telling the Fort Worth Star Telegram that top Kerry aide Joe Lockhart pressed him to turn over damaging evidence on George Bush.</p>

<p>The source of a disputed CBSNEWS report claimed Thursday that Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart tried to "convince me as to why I should give them the documents." Texas Army National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett tells the FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM that he has suffered four seizures since being identified as CBS' source and dogged by the media... Developing...</p>

WASHINGTON – Bill Burkett of Baird, Texas, will have a prominent place in the annals of political trickery. He'll be remembered as the one who aimed at President Bush and felled the mighty Dan Rather and "60 Minutes." Who could've contrived this hoax? Suspicions settled on Mr. Burkett, himself a former Guard officer with a lively hatred of President Bush. With a sinking feeling, Rather and staff, who'd worked long and hard at developing the "scoop," realized they'd been had. Rather flew to Texas and strong-armed Burkett into an interview confessing all - almost all. He said he'd worked in...

CHRONOLOGY OF CHARACTER ASSASSINATION___________________________________________________________PRIOR TO THE CBS REPORT: "In e-mail messages to a Yahoo discussion group for Texas Democrats, Burkett laid out a rationale for using what he termed 'down and dirty' tactics against Bush. He said that he had passed his ideas to the Democratic National Committee but that the DNC seemed 'afraid to do what I suggest.'" (Michael Dobbs, "Parallels Drawn Between CBS Memos, Texan's Postings," The Washington Post, 9/18/04)IN AUGUST, PRIOR TO THE CBS REPORT: "Ultimately, Burkett decided to turn over the documents to one of the most persistent journalists, CBS producer Mary Mapes, sometime in August....

High-level Democrats, including some inside the Kerry campaign, were appalled by this week's political sideshow. Just as John Kerry began finding his voice on Iraq, he was in danger of being drowned out by Democratic operatives Joe Lockhart and Terry McAuliffe. But the Democratic presidential candidate had only himself to blame. Democratic critics can hardly comprehend that Lockhart, President Bill Clinton's spokesman who was recently taken aboard the campaign by Sen. Kerry, telephoned a notorious Bush-bashing eccentric who was CBS's source of the discredited documents. They also are unhappy that McAuliffe, the Clinton-selected Democratic National Committee chairman, has launched an...

CBS reports eFing has a cold and has lost his voice. Yet, with CBS's track record, inquiring minds want to know what the real reason is...

Last week, as the furor over Dan Rather's National Guard memos grew more and more intense, media critic Ken Auletta, appearing on PBS, criticized Fox News Channel for having "treated this story as if it were Watergate. It's not Watergate." Actually, in many respects, it is indeed broadcast journalism's Watergate.... There are two serious problems with this entire episode, beyond the obvious blow to CBS News' credibility. One is Rather's defensive — even accusatory — reaction to any and all questions about the documents' legitimacy.... First, they refused to consider any questions whatsoever — even from respected news organizations —...

.....The Bush campaign was quick to hop on the latest twist in the document drama. ''The fact that CBS News would coordinate with the most senior people in the Kerry campaign is troubling, and it is a stunning revelation that raises serious questions," said Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the Bush campaign. ''The Kerry campaign should come clean about their involvement." Reprising a line from the Watergate scandal during an appearance on CNN, Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said, ''The question to the Kerry campaign is, what did they know and when did they know it?" The...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Kerry camp rejects CBS linkBy Stephen Dinan and Bill SammonTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished September 22, 2004 Sen. John Kerry's campaign said yesterday they do not think that contacts between senior adviser Joe Lockhart and the man who leaked fake memos about President Bush to CBS News were wrong or show that Mr. Lockhart helped disseminate the documents.     Mike McCurry, an adviser and spokesman to the campaign, told reporters that Mr. Kerry "does not believe Joe did anything improper. He made a call at the suggestion of CBS News."     But Republicans, who long had suggested that Democratic operatives were...

Sen. John F. Kerry's campaign fired back hard at the White House yesterday, saying President Bush [related, bio] was using the CBS documents scandal as a ``gutless political attack'' and smokescreen to duck questions about Bush's National Guard service. ``You have to question the motives of the people who are asking these questions,'' senior Kerry campaign adviser Joe Lockhart said. ``The White House is raising questions about this because they don't want to answer questions.'' Lockhart, however, confirmed he spoke with Bill Burkett, the former Guardsman who gave the bogus documents to CBS. A CBS producer had suggested Lockhart call...

A spit-take scoop from USA Today: CBS arranged for a confidential source to talk with Joe Lockhart, a top aide to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, after the source provided the network with the now-disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard. Lockhart, the former press secretary to President Clinton, said a female producer talked to him about the 60 Minutes program a few days before it aired on Sept. 8. She gave Lockhart a telephone number and asked him to call Bill Burkett, a former Texas National Guard officer who gave CBS the documents. Lockhart couldn't...

George W. Bush's riposte to John Kerry's NYU Iraq speech was swift and had nothing to do with the platitudes offered up at the U.N. General Assembly earlier today. The headline is Dan Rather, not the U.N. Bush's team began with Dan Rather's "I'm sorry" for falling for the Bush National Guard story, and that was quickly followed up by suggestions that the Kerry campaign had a hand in an attempted smear. Next, according to Matt Drudge, may be a move by the Bush team to oust CBS's respected newsman Bob Schieffer from his announced appointment as moderator of the...

Mapes suggested Lockhart contact retired officer BurkettA campaign adviser for John Kerry told CNN he spoke with retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett -- the man who CBS said provided them with disputed documents -- days before the "60 Minutes" piece aired and after a call from a CBS news producer, but....

"Lockhart, the second Kerry ally to confirm contact with Burkett, said he made the call at the suggestion of CBS producer Mary Mapes. . . Yesterday's action comes 12 days after CBS reported that Mapes had obtained memos from the files of Lt. Col. Jerry Killian..."

NEW YORK (AP)--At the behest of CBS, an adviser to John Kerry said Monday he talked to a central figure in the controversy over President Bush's National Guard service shortly before disputed documents were released. The White House accused Kerry's campaign of fanning the controversy over Bush's military service. Joe Lockhart denied any connection between the presidential campaign and the papers. Lockhart, the second Kerry ally to confirm contact with retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett, said he made the call at the suggestion of CBS producer Mary Mapes. "He had some advice on how to deal with the...

Will CBS commit itself to a hunt for the real forger? Did Burkett admit he was the forger or was he too a victim of a hoax? Now Joe Lockhart admits that Mapes called him to suggest that he call Burkett to check out Burkett's story. If that is not coordination between CBS and the Kerry campaign, then what is? Just imagine if a Fox producer called the Bush campaign or RNC and suggested that they call a Swift Boat vet with documents on Kerry. The other networks would scream to the roof top. The bottom line is that Viacom,...

Heard on Joe Scarborough--talking about it now.

A spit-take scoop from USA Today: CBS arranged for a confidential source to talk with Joe Lockhart, a top aide to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, after the source provided the network with the now-disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard. Lockhart, the former press secretary to President Clinton, said a female producer talked to him about the 60 Minutes program a few days before it aired on Sept. 8. She gave Lockhart a telephone number and asked him to call Bill Burkett, a former Texas National Guard officer who gave CBS the documents. Lockhart couldn't...

So now Lockhart is involved somehow.... NEW YORK - At the behest of CBS, an adviser to John Kerry (news - web sites) said he talked to a central figure in the controversy over President Bush (news - web sites)'s National Guard service shortly before disputed documents were released. AP Photo Joe Lockhart denied any connection between the presidential campaign and the papers. Lockhart, the second Kerry ally to confirm contact with retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett, said he made the call at the suggestion of CBS producer Mary Mapes. "He had some advice on how to deal...

Fox just announce, on Hannity and Colmes that Mapes the Producer of the Bush hit piece called Joe Lockhart BEFORE they went to air with this and talked to him about it and to get advise!