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To: TigerPaw who wrote (201952)	9/14/2004 10:10:18 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573427

Here are the facts: It comes right back to McAuliffe: The suspected source behind the CBS News "60 Minutes II" segment on President Bush's National Guard service has spent the past six years lobbing accusations at Bush and his aides for allegedly tampering with military records. Retired Texas National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett has been identified by Newsweek magazine as a "principle source" for the Sept. 8 segment that showed purported National Guard records casting a negative light on Bush's performance with the Guard in the early 1970s. Since the CBS report anchored by Dan Rather aired, many typographical experts have pointed to problems with the documents and the network itself has come under attack for possibly using forgeries as the foundation of its report. Burkett has a long history with Bush, dating back to Bush's 1998 gubernatorial re-election campaign in Texas. After retiring from the Guard in January 1998 for medical reasons, Burkett accused the governor's aides of improperly inspecting Bush's records for anything embarrassing. Similar charges surfaced in the days before the 2000 presidential election, according to the Sunday Times of London. At the time, Burkett said Bush's aides had searched military documents to resolve any conflicts between Bush's service and the account in his biography. The allegations became the subject of an 1,800-word article by Burkett in March 2003, published by Veterans for Peace. It accused Bush of sending Burkett on a military assignment to Panama in retaliation for Burkett's refusal to alter Bush's official military personnel records. Burkett, who became ill after the trip, later said he had "overstated" his accusation. Then, this February, after Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe broached the issue of Bush's record, Burkett reappeared with charges that he had overheard Bush's former gubernatorial chief of staff Joe Allbaugh in 1997 request that the Texas National Guard scrub Bush's files. Uh-huh. It all comes down to McAuliffe, doesn't it... cnsnews.com