"Someone from the Army," Part II

Down below I was rather sarcastic about Ms. Knox's suggestion that "someone from the Army" might have typed up the forgeries, based upon seeing the actual documents previously.

I was thinking, "She's trying to send us looking at someone from the Army, because she knows/suspects it's someone from the Air National Guard."

But, gee willickers, turns out that maybe I forgot who was who among the players. Cabal of Doom reminds me:

For instance, she said, the use of the words “billets� and a reference to the “administrative officer� of Mr. Bush’s squadron reflect Army terminology rather than the Air National Guard. Some news reports attribute the CBS reports to a former Army National Guard officer who has a longstanding dispute with the Guard and has previously maintained that the president’s record was sanitized.

So let me take back my sarcasm about looking at "someone from the Army." Let's cast a wide net here. We don't want to leave any stone unturned.

Kerry/Rather Spot opens the New York Times and finds that one particular stone is getting a bit turned:

But one person at CBS, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report in Newsweek that Bill Burkett, a retired National Guard officer who has charged that senior aides to then-Gov. Bush had ordered Guard officials to remove damaging information from Mr. Bush's military personnel files, had been a source of the report. This person did not know the exact role he played. Mr. Burkett declined to return telephone calls to his home near Abilene, Tex. His lawyer, David Van Os, on Tuesday repeatedly refused to say in a telephone interview whether the officer had played a part in supplying the disputed documents to CBS. Mr. Van Os said "the real story is and should be, where was George Bush?" and that Mr. Burkett "is not the proper object of attention."

Mr. Van Os called Mr. Burkett "a man of impeccable honesty who would not permit himself to be a party to anything fake, fraudulent or phony."

It's not fraudulent if you're creating a "forgery" out of "the truth," of course.

Update: And remember Allah's argument that someone from the ANG wouldn't have made the acronymic errors seen in the forgeries.

Not to cast any suspicions, but Mr. Bill Burkett was not in the Air National Guard. In fact, he was in the Army National Guard.

Someone from the army, as it turns out.

posted by Ace at 11:14 PM

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