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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (57150)	9/24/2004 12:58:17 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (57150)	9/24/2004 1:54:58 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

On "Lucy Ramirez" and "forgeries" _________________________________ Wondering why it took the White House so long to respond? And why, when confronted with the accusation that this was, indeed, a White House operation, they responded by briefly pulling all scheduled appearances with the media? ...the original forgers never planned on the documents actually making it on television. That would create an uncontrollable storm, about the very subject that the "ratf'ing" operation was trying to insulate the President from. The operation was just to destroy Burkett himself, the person with the most knowledge of the "scrubbing" of Bush's files -- a very damaging subject with felony implications. It was going to be a simple plan, no harder than forging any other "newly discovered" documents in Bush's files. The memos just had to look "real enough" to fool an amateur like Burkett, but not real enough that a media-consulted expert couldn't immediately recognize them as forged: a delicate balance, but one the operation thought it could pull off. But there was a problem that the creators of the memos didn't count on. Or, rather, there were several problems. The first is that Burkett, when faced with the documents, simply got cold feet. He didn't show them to anyone. He kept them hidden, and sat on them for a number of months, not sure what to do. ...(they were not) prepared for the appearance on the scene of the aged secretary who vouched for the accuracy of the content... (Thinking the media would conclude they were forgeries and dismiss Burkett forever after as unreliable) they were simply not prepared for the media to not realize the documents were forged, and to run with them full-speed. ...they simply didn't know what to do in those first few days (after the name Lucy Ramirez appeared as the "source") . The torpedo they had launched months ago had managed to arc gracefully right back around to them, and they suddenly found themselves looking it in the face. They couldn't deny the content of the memos -- after all, they were presumably based on real ones -- but they could hardly come out and be the first ones to say that they were forgeries, either. more... dailykos.com