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To: LindyBill who wrote (69728)	9/13/2004 3:19:15 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793824

"Round up the usual....." Newsweek is on the trail. .....Where did the documents come from? CBS won't say. But the trail pieced together by NEWSWEEK shows that in a sulfurous season like this one, the difference between obscurity and power is small, and anyone can get a hearing. A principal source for CBS's story was Bill Burkett, a disgruntled former Guard officer who lives in Baird, Texas, who says he was present at Guard headquarters in Austin in 1997, when a top aide to the then Governor Bush ordered records sanitized to protect the Boss. Other Guard officials disputed Burkett's account, and the Bush aide involved, Joe Allbaugh, called it "absolute garbage." Burkett may have a motive to make trouble for the powers that be. In 1998, he grew gravely ill on a Guard mission to Panama, causing him to be hospitalized, and he suffered two nervous breakdowns. He unsuccessfully sued for medical expenses. Still, in theory, Burkett may have had access to any Guard records that, in a friend's words, "didn't make it to the shredder." Fellow officers say he wasn't a crank, but rather a stickler for proper procedure—a classic whistle-blower type. Burkett was impressive enough to cause CBS producer Mary Mapes to fly to Texas to interview him. "There are only a couple of guys I would trust to be as perfectly honest and upfront as Bill," says Dennis Adams, a former Guard colleague. The White House, through Communications Director Dan Bartlett, called Burkett a "discredited source." Indeed, Bush strategists are convinced—or have convinced themselves—that the issue will backfire on its purveyors............... msnbc.msn.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (69728)	9/13/2004 3:22:54 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793824

YIKKES!!! Further, Strong said that he doesn’t think it matters* whether the documents are genuine are not.* So..........that would mean that ANYONE can make up ANYTHING about ANYBODY and the Dems along with CBS think that is OK..... Reminds me of the Seeeemore <g> Hersch note in the NYT today....The documents he used for his new BushBashingcan'tcallitabook....were not documented, and some were copies of copies..... The article is someplace in Section A of the paper....