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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (203553)	9/21/2004 8:29:25 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

"Lucy Ramirez" (or whoever Rove's "secret operative" was) would never open her mouth -Paid operative, loyal like the rest of Rove's team. No one involved in faking the original memos would blow the whistle ditto, but look for 25 year anniversary autobiographies - Burkett would not have recognized the "obvious physical flaws" himself He had no kind of expertise, and was conned. - CBS would have also missed those "obvious physical flaws" because of their anti-Bush zeal And don't forget that Burkett was a former contributer with a fair amount of original material himself (the testimony about the purging of the files). That made him the perfect conduit. He was trusted, he had been reliable in the past, he was the perfect patsy. - Bloggers on the Internet would be standing by and would never reveal the instructions they received from Rove or one of his "secret operatives" The blogger who broke the story was no ordinary blogger. He was a Rove apparachik. Others followed his lead. bluelemur.com - Rather would have considered a disgruntled Lt. Col. to be an "unimpeachable source." The story, the memo contents, were confirmed by General Hodges, Secretary Knox, and the flight director of the guard (whos name escapes me at the moment). The memos are in fact real, they are just paraphrased copies of the actual files as opposed to Xerox copies. That was a necessary ingredient to getting the memos accepted. Rove must have had a pretty good idea that the information was about to come out. Clever, like a snake in the garden. TP

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (203553)	9/21/2004 10:35:32 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577883

So for your conspiracy theory to be plausible, Rove would had to have known that: - "Lucy Ramirez" (or whoever Rove's "secret operative" was) would never open her mouth - No one involved in faking the original memos would blow the whistle - Burkett would not have recognized the "obvious physical flaws" himself - CBS would have also missed those "obvious physical flaws" because of their anti-Bush zeal - Bloggers on the Internet would be standing by and would never reveal the instructions they received from Rove or one of his "secret operatives" - Rather would have considered a disgruntled Lt. Col. to be an "unimpeachable source." Actually, when you lay it out like you did above, it looks more and more like Rove. Nonetheless, the risk in doing it still makes me wonder.