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To: LindyBill who wrote (72992)	9/23/2004 11:19:56 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793830

I said a few days ago that Burkett is a real "loose cannon." Lockhart tried to "convince me as to why I should give them the documents." The San Jose Mercury News has a big scoop, namely Bill Burkett's first non-CBS interview since the scandal broke. The "impeachable source" warms up by taking a swipe at Rather: "It caught CBS very flat-footed. They were not prepared. And I had warned them ... that this would probably be one of the most highly coordinated vicious attacks that they would ever have to face," Bill Burkett, a former Texas National Guardsman, said in an interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Burkett said that he and CBS News anchor Dan Rather spoke "forcefully" after questions arose about dated Guard memos supposedly from Bush's commander and provided to the network by Burkett. Burkett said he agreed to a taped interview with Rather on Monday as suspicion about the memos mounted, putting the network's reputation at stake. He said key portions of the interview were never aired. "He snipped it apart to cover them," he said. "That's all that that evening news was - to find a fall guy. And it was me." Like the appetizer? Good? Good. Now for the entree, baby: He said, however, that during the meeting in which he gave the memos to CBS, he was also told by a producer that his phone number would be passed on to Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart. "I was absolutely and clearly told that that was as far as anyone could go without crossing the line of (journalistic) ethics," Burkett said. Are you ready? Are you ready for it? During a single phone conversation with Lockhart, Burkett said he suggested a "couple of concepts on what I thought (Kerry) had to do" to beat Bush. In return, he said, Lockhart tried to "convince me as to why I should give them the documents." wizbangblog.com