Burkett: From "No Documents" to "We Have Reassembled Your Files"

RatherBiased remains interested in this curiosity, even if the "independent" Panel showed no curiosity whatsoever.

On August 18, 2004, Burkett wrote the following -- now deleted, but archived by bloggers who bagged and tagged the evidence before it was destroyed:

I have found no documentation from LTC Killian’s hand or staff that indicate that this unit was involved in any complicit way to either cover for the failures of 1LT Bush, or to provide him pay or certification for training not completed. On the contrary, LTC Killians’ remarks are rare, indeed, especially considering that 1LT Bush was known clearly as a congress-man’s son and had utilized his position as such, to gain a favor of his failure to train while in Alabama. I have to believe that earning that favor was completed by false pretenses also due to LTC Killian’s officer evaluation comment.

Of course, thirteen days later Burkett claims to have "reassembled" Bush's files.

What precisely caused Burkett to change positions? Could it have been CBS News' suggestions about a possible book deal for "information that could potentially change the momentum of an election?

There's more at the Dinocrat link, including a non-mealy-mouthed conclusion about the identity of the actual forger.

Including, for those of you interested in this nugget, a discussion of the OER/OETR mistake.

posted by Ace at 01:16 PM

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