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January 13, 2005

What Did the Anchor Know, and When Did He Know It?

RatherBiased asks a good question: When, exactly, did Dan Rather learn about Bill Burkett's rather colorful past?

He first maintained his source was "unimpeachable."

RatherBiased says that the script he had prepared for his September 10 defense of the story included that word. But then, strangely, Rather changed the script, to say the story had been confirmed "by what we consider solid sources." [Emphasis added.]

Why the change? And if Rather knew at all about Bill Burkett, how could he maintain he was even a "solid" source?

Another unanswered question. Jeepers, it sure would have been nice to have a blue-ribbon independent panel checking into these things, wouldn't it have?

Related: The American Thinker speculates (a bit unclearly, alas) as to who actually made the forgeries.

The Thinker puts some emphasis on possibly erroneously-interpreted passages from an online "Bush AWOL" piece resulting in the forgeries' error as to when Bush was required to take his physical.

Which is interesting. Because as I, err, "reported" here some time ago, the forger may have stated that Staudt was exerting pressure to "sugar coat" Bush's record -- despite the fact that he had been retired for more than a year at the time -- because he trusted the Boston Globe to get Staudt's retirement date correct, which it did not.

The Globe erroneously reported he retired much later than he actually did.

Ah, the perils of being an "Internet Detective," relying only on web-searches and on-line essays when "reassembling" someone's military files.


posted by Ace at 04:01 PM
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Besides all the American Thinker points, as I've been trying to tell you Bill and Allah for months:

There is no such thing as an OETR!!!! And the only place I ever saw this acronym (or its "full name", Officer Effectiveness Training Report) is on Paul Lukasiak's glcq.com site!

The author MUST have used Lukasiak's site (if the author is not Lukasiak himself) as a basis for the forgeries.

Posted by: JFH on January 13, 2005 07:23 PM

It's a good tip, JFH. Let me tell you the truth: I didn't ignore you, and I didn't think you were necessarily wrong.

I just didn't want to start anything that could result in a libel suit, you know?

You had a hunch, and a good one, but I can't prove it, and so I've been wary of following up on that sort of tip which seems to point towards one person.

Posted by: ace on January 13, 2005 11:43 PM

"RatherBiased asks a good question: When, exactly, did Dan Rather learn about Bill Burkett's rather colorful past?"

Balls.

I'm just a lower-middle-class Texan with absolutely no direct contacts in the politics business, and I knew who Burkett was as soon as I saw the name.

Rather's supposed to be this high-powered clued-in newsman with hotlines to all the players. There is no, repeat no, chance that anybody like that -- most especially somebody with relatives in the Austin political scene -- didn't know who Burkett was.

He's either lying or senile.

Regards,
Ric Locke

Posted by: Ric Locke on January 14, 2005 12:22 AM

I thought the reference to "unimpeachable source" was to Conn, not Burkett.

Am I wrong on this?

My recollection, admittedly sketchy, is that CBS had some concerns about Burkett, which is why they were pressing him to say where he got the docs. That's when he lied and said he got them from Conn. My understanding is that this name satisfied them.

Posted by: Phil on January 14, 2005 12:07 PM

I don't think Lukasiak created the docs. I asked Paul, point-blank.

I can't say for sure, of course, but he strikes me as simply deluded, not malicious enough to forge documents.

Must my opinion, of course.

There's virtually no doubt that the forger read Lukasiak's site, though.

That's the only place I've found that mistakenly uses OETR. And Paul agrees it is his error.

Posted by: Phil on January 14, 2005 12:22 PM
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