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Originally posted by Not Me
I guess Ty has Aloha on ignore and didn't read that Burkett admits to providing CBS with the documents and misleading CBS as to the source.
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I think the implication of Ty's post is not that Rove or R's provided the information. Rather, the implication is that after several hours, Bartlett & Rove decided they were likely not authentic but figured if they said nothing that CBS would take the rope and hang themselves with it.
I think the post is off base. In particular, whether Bartlett and Rove have every NG document related to Bush's service is immaterial... they would be irrational to quickly dismiss documents that purportedly came from someone's private files on the premise that they'd have known about them if they were authentic. That would be politically very dangerous.
On the other hand, I'm not sure your answer isn't off base either. Burkett says he got them from someone else. Once shown to be a liar, why in the world would we take his word on anything now?
I'll put 70% odds that he (or someone very close to him) manufactured the documents, and 30% that someone manufactured them gave them to him essentially anonymously in an effort to have him (Burkett) as a somewhat credible source pass them on.
As to the second, I'd put even odds on whether it was a Dem thinking no one would figure it out or a R lawyer (or something like that) in GA thinking it would be great to debunk the whole thing and cloud the entire issue of Bush's service with the issue of liberal bias and misleading/lying Democratic sources.
Geezus, those are some long sentences.
Bottom line:
70% Burkett alone
15% Burkett protecting a lying Democrat/anonymous Democrat;
15% Burkett protecting a brilliant GA Republican or something similar.
I'm putting 0% on Rove or anyone in the WH. It would be disastrous if they were caught, and its just not worth it to try.
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