By Mark for the TIB Network:
From USA Today:CBS News acknowledged Monday that it received disputed documents critical of President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard from a former Texas Guard officer who now says he lied about where he got them and has doubts about their authenticity...
Burkett admitted lying to USA TODAY about the source of the documents but said he did not fabricate the papers...
"I didn't forge anything," Burkett said. "I didn't fake any documents. The only thing I've done here is to transfer documents from people I thought were real to people I thought were real. And that has been the limitation of my role. I may have been a patsy."
Come on now, Mr. Burkett. Stand behind your convictions, behind your views...Oh wait, you can't. Here is some more BS from this guy...
Burkett now maintains that the source of the papers was Lucy Ramirez, who he says phoned him from Houston in March to offer the documents. USA TODAY has been unable to locate Ramirez.OK, so you got this call from a woman whom no one can find and were met cloak and dagger style at a show....Right....Dude has been watching too many spy movies...Come on, admit it, you did this to get at Bush....Check out this gem:
Burkett said Ramirez told him she had seen him the previous month in an appearance on the MSNBC program Hardball, discussing the controversy over whether Bush fulfilled all his obligations for service in the Texas Air Guard during the early 1970s. "There is something I have that I want to make sure gets out," he quoted her as saying.
He said Ramirez claimed to possess Killian's "correspondence file," which would prove Burkett's allegations that Bush had problems as a Guard fighter pilot.
Burkett said he arranged to get the documents during a trip to Houston for a livestock show in March. But instead of being met at the show by Ramirez, he was approached by a man who asked for Burkett, handed him an envelope and quickly left, Burkett recounted.
Burkett recounted his continuing efforts — beginning before he was discharged from the Texas Army National Guard in 1998 — to clean up what he saw as Guard corruption and mismanagement. He said that activity led to a telephone call in March from Ramirez and her offer to provide documents damaging to President Bush. [my emphasis]Here USA Today inadvertently put some truth into the story. Burkett doesn't care about corruption in the Guard. No, the only thing he cared about was getting damaging info on the President, truthfulness be damned.
Of course, now that this massive falsehood and smear has been revealed, CBS, Burkett, and USA Today are trying to all lay the blame somewhere else. Liberals cannot even take responsibility for their own failed smear campaigns. When you look at the candidate, it shouldn't come as a surprise...I'm just saying....
