Kerryspot points out some significant info buried in the
last paragraphs of the "Fake but True" NYT article I just
posted. I keep saying, "ya gotta read the NYT like you are
a Russian reading Pravda!" From: LindyBill
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nytimes.com.
<font size=4>The New York Times reports some dramatic new developments, buried in the second half of their story.
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But one person at CBS, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report in Newsweek that Bill Burkett, a retired National Guard officer who has charged that senior aides to then-Gov. Bush had ordered Guard officials to remove damaging information from Mr. Bush's military personnel files, had been a source of the report. This person did not know the exact role he played.
Mr. Burkett declined to return telephone calls to his home near Abilene, Tex. His lawyer, David Van Os, on Tuesday repeatedly refused to say in a telephone interview whether the officer had played a part in supplying the disputed documents to CBS. Mr. Van Os said "the real story is and should be, where was George Bush?" and that Mr. Burkett "is not the proper object of attention."
Mr. Van Os called Mr. Burkett "a man of impeccable honesty who would not permit himself to be a party to anything fake, fraudulent or phony."
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Officials at CBS News said on Tuesday that they would at some point in the day provide the name of a document expert who expressed confidence in the records' authenticity before the report was broadcast. But they did not do so, and Ms. West declined to say why.
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Also, the Times reports that Lt. Col. Jerry B.Killian's son, Gary, doubts his father's secretary's assertion that the documents are fake but accurately reflect Jerry Killian's views at the time. He has some nice and civil things to say about Marian Carr Knox, despite his assertion she is mistaken.
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"She's a sweet old lady, but she's wrong and it didn't happen,''<font color=black> he said. <font color=purple>"I always thought well of her, and I know my dad would have also, but she's a sweet old lady.'' |
