Max Cleland is CBS source for memogate

Here's the latest:

Bill Burkett says he faxed the memos to Max Cleland to use in the
campaign against Bush. Cleland then gave them to Kerry people,
but it appears they didn't want anything to do with it, and he then
turned to fellow Texans Dan Rather and Bob Schiefer to handle
the attack.

Cleland doesn't know who forged them, and Burkett is somewhere
in Mexico until after November.

"Bob Coe" wrote:

Here's the latest:

Bill Burkett says he faxed the memos to Max Cleland to use in the
campaign against Bush. Cleland then gave them to Kerry people,
but it appears they didn't want anything to do with it, and he then
turned to fellow Texans Dan Rather and Bob Schiefer to handle
the attack.

Cleland doesn't know who forged them, and Burkett is somewhere
in Mexico until after November.

Source, please.

| George Ruch
| "Is there life in Clovis after Clovis Man?"

"George Ruch" wrote

Source, please.

It's all over the DNC newsgroups, but here's an AP story:

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_frien...132820,00.html

"George Ruch" wrote in message
...
"Bob Coe" wrote:

Here's the latest:

Bill Burkett says he faxed the memos to Max Cleland to use in the
campaign against Bush. Cleland then gave them to Kerry people,
but it appears they didn't want anything to do with it, and he then
turned to fellow Texans Dan Rather and Bob Schiefer to handle
the attack.

Cleland doesn't know who forged them, and Burkett is somewhere
in Mexico until after November.

Source, please.

Try ABC News:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040918_959.html

Brooks


| George Ruch
| "Is there life in Clovis after Clovis Man?"

"Kevin Brooks" wrote
"George Ruch" wrote in message

Source, please.

Try ABC News:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040918_959.html

Looks like Cleland lost another body part on this deal (his ass).

"Bob Coe" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote
"George Ruch" wrote in message

Source, please.

Try ABC News:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040918_959.html

Looks like Cleland lost another body part on this deal (his ass).

I heard one of the talking heads say that Burkett had tried to sue the Texas
National Guard a few years back when GWB was governor, and lost. Some
animosity towards Bush was supposedly involved on Burkett's part. Which may
explain a few things that have been rattling around in my head over this
whole affair...Burkett was also the source of that strange tale of Texas
Guard officials supposedly sanitizing Bush's records, which left unsaid (a)
How and why personnel records from an individual who had separated some
twenty plus years earlier had been supposedly kept within the state's Guard
HQ for that length of time (instead of being sent off to St. Louis or Guard
Bureau in Arlington, VA), and (b) How an *Army* NG officer (which Burkett
was), in the days before the very recent move to a joint state-level Guard
HQ (just kicked off this year) was supposedly sitting around while *ANG*
officers hatched this conspiracy, and then managed to be around their
wastebasket where he allegedly saw all sorts of incriminating documents
being discarded. Now we know what was suspected earlier this week--Burkett
was the source for these forged documents, which would never have made it
into a servicemember's record jacket even if they *had* been legitimate.
Which pretty clearly casts Burkett as a guy with a grudge and a willingness
to commit forgery in order to try and get his revenge. Hope they prosecute
the ******* for falsifying official documents.

Brooks

Or, he's the one who got the short straw and gets to take the blame...

Jack G.


"Bob Coe" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote
"George Ruch" wrote in message

Source, please.

Try ABC News:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040918_959.html

Looks like Cleland lost another body part on this deal (his ass).

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:44:05 -0600, George Ruch
wrote:

Source, please.

The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...Questions.html

Notice how the "newspaper of record" relies on the Associated Press,
and how both bury the explosive news as best they can.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Bob Coe" wrote in message
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Here's the latest:

Yet another political post that has virtually nothing to do with military
aviation.

Vaughn

Commander in chief has everything to do with military aviation...

"Vaughn" wrote

Yet another political post that has virtually nothing to do with military
aviation.