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Unit 127 of the Pajamahadeen reporting for duty. On August 13, Bill Burkett posted approving comments on democrats.com ( http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=23055 ) about a rabid website that claims President Bush went AWOL while in the National Guard. These remarks were highlighted in an article by Steve Gilbert on the American Thinker website that I want to acknowledge first. ( www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=719 ) The AT piece points out a stark contradiction between Burkett's August comments and his claim to have received the Killian forgeries in March (the cattle show story). Near the end of his August comments, Burkett says "I have found no...

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

How Biased is CBS and the Mainstream Press? Written by JB Williams ©2004-09-23 CBS has committed five years of effort and resources by senior producer (Mary Mapes) and her staff, to digging through 30 year old service records of George W. Bush in search of any evidence that would help them remove him from the oval office. When CBS failed to unearth any damning evidence concerning Bush’s Guard service after five years of in depth research, they became party to disseminating forged evidence needed to pursue their agenda. CBS claims that it was a BIG story worthy of pursuit, having...

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...

Former Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett, who provided CBS News with possibly fraudulent documents purporting to show that President Bush shirked his Guard duty, is looking for a lawyer to pursue a possible defamation case against the network. Burkett is angry with CBS and anchor Dan Rather for disclosing his identity after promising him anonymity, his current attorney, Gabriel Quintanilla, said yesterday. Quintanilla said Burkett's life had become "pure hell" since Monday, when Rather disclosed on the "CBS Evening News" that he was the network's confidential and "unimpeachable" source for the controversial documents. Burkett has had little luck finding...

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 .

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?

The source of a discredited CBS News report said Thursday that he did not coordinate the release of disputed documents with John Kerry's campaign. Bill Burkett, a former Texas National Guardsman, also said that he warned the network that the documents critical of President Bush's service in the National Guard would be vigorously challenged and should be independently validated. "It caught CBS very flat-footed. They were not prepared. And I had warned them ... that this would probably be one of the most highly coordinated vicious attacks that they would ever have to face," Burkett said in an interview with...

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.

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>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>

<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>

CNN) -- Bill Burkett, who gave CBS News the alleged documents about President Bush's National Guard service, insists "the jury is still out" on whether those documents are authentic. "The documents have not been conclusively proven false," Burkett said. "Neither have they been proven authentic. That jury is still out." Burkett has been under intense media scrutiny since he was revealed as the source of the documents. On Thursday, he replied via email to a series of questions from CNN. Burkett said he expected CBS to use its "massive and superlative abilities" to authenticate the documents prior to broadcast. He...

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...

Let's play Clue, the engrossing Election 2004 edition. The rules aren't that hard, really. Like the better-known variant featuring Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick or Professor Plum in the conservatory with a lead pipe, it's all about collecting evidence, figuring out whodunit and why. The ending should be very interesting.... (snip) Start with Dan the Anchorman, who broadcast a story about Top Gun George Bush, the fighter pilot-turned-President and how strings were pulled long ago to keep the young scamp from combat in Southeast Asia. That's where Democrat John "Lieutenant Lurch" Kerry, his rival, now says he...

I have been searching all morning trying to find out if Michael Moore was at the Houston rodeo and Livestock Show. specifically at the same time as Burkett. I have not seen MM's movie, so if someone has seen it:Is there a reference or scene at the rodeo. On Moore's website he goes into great detail concerning his beliefs of the the guard situation. While working on Wesley clarks Campaign he made numerous refernces to Docs. any help will be greatly appreciated.

OP-ED COLUMNIST Whoever, having devised any scheme or artifice to defraud transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. " U.S. Criminal Code, Chapter 63, Section 1343. WASHINGTON — At the root of what is today treated as an embarrassing blunder by duped CBS journalists may turn out to be a felony by its faithless sources. Some person or persons conceived a scheme...