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Navyolsalt · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject: CBS Document Source

FOX News just now did a spot about the documents and showed one of the documents that had a FAX header on it. The FAX number that I wrote down quickly, hope that I got it right was 2129751998. Who's FAX number is this? Did anyone else catch this?
Sincerely,
Navyolsalt

Navyolsalt · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject: Forget

Forget this post the number is CBS FAX number. Sorry.
Navyolsalt

lrb111 · Captain Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 508

Nomorelies · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject:

In the blogosphere, a fax number is an asset. Especially when about 500,000 bloggers get the number and decide to send fax blasts to Dan Rather expressing their opinions. I wonder if has been cross-posted to other blog sites?

In case you did not get it :

212-975-1998

I say sink them swiftly.
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Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004 5:56 p.m. EDT
Newsweek: CBS Source Was Disgruntled Guard Officer

NEW YORK – A principal source for the CBS story about President Bush's National Guard duty was Bill Burkett, a disgruntled former Guard officer who lives in Baird, Texas, who says he was present at Guard headquarters in Austin in 1997 when a top aide to then-Gov. Bush ordered records sanitized to protect the boss, Newsweek reports in its current issue.

Typed memos from the early '70s suggesting officers were pressured to give Bush special treatment and "sugarcoat" increasingly negative evaluations were a central part of the CBS report.
Other Guard officials disputed Burkett's account, and the Bush aide involved, Joe Allbaugh, called it "absolute garbage."

Burkett may have a motive to make trouble for the powers that be. In 1998, he grew gravely ill on a Guard mission to Panama, causing him to be hospitalized, and he suffered two nervous breakdowns. He unsuccessfully sued for medical expenses.

Still, in theory, Burkett may have had access to any Guard records that, in a friend's words, "didn't make it to the shredder," reports Chief Political Correspondent Howard Fineman and Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff in the Sept. 20 issue of Newsweek.

Fellow officers say Burkett wasn't a crank but rather a stickler for proper procedure – a classic whistle-blower type.

Burkett was impressive enough to cause CBS producer Mary Mapes to fly to Texas to interview him.

"There are only a couple of guys I would trust to be as perfectly honest and upfront as Bill," said Dennis Adams, a former Guard colleague. The White House, through Communications Director Dan Bartlett, called Burkett a "discredited source."

Newsweek also reports that a hard-core group within the John Kerry campaign is setting up a new "oppo" squad aimed at countering what they perceive as Republican-backed smears against Kerry. Tentatively called Sealords II – Kerry's Mekong Delta mission in Vietnam was known as Sealords – the group has a $1 million budget and will be housed at the Democratic National Committee, where, one of its members says, the mission will be "message, debate prep, attack, attack."

(PRNewswire)