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Thursday, September 16, 2004

Burkett Provides the Smoking Gun...

...and further evidence of intentional CBS fraud is exposed...

Let's start with the indispensible Captain from which we learn that Burkett wrote in an August 25th online op-ed that he knows Bush lied because of "files that we have now reassembled"

We also know from yesterday's reporting that the CBS forgeries were sent from a Kinko's 20 miles from Burkett's home...

...So I can think we can safely say that the source of the forgeries has now been definitively identified...

We also learn from the Captain's posting by way of a reader's comment that CBS did not air the portion of Marian Knox's interview that "words in there that belong to the Army, not the Air Guard. We never used those terms." As we know, Burkett was a Lt. Colonel in the Army National Guard.

That quote wasn't inadvertently left on the cutting room floor...It wasn't a mistake...It was CBS intentionally trying to hide the source of the forgeries. This is fraud. They knew that Marian Knox's statement would provide further evidence that the documents were forged, but they intentionally hid it from their viewers.

They had proof of the forgery from their own experts...They suppressed interviews conducted with Killian's wife and son...They suppressed Marian Knox's statement about the terminology being from the Army...

CBS wasn't "duped." This isn't an unfortunate journalistic error. CBS is attempting to defraud the public.

This is deeper than Dan Rather. Dan Rather alone doesn't make these decisions. Given the high profile of this story, the fraud goes all to the top. What is being reported, what is being withheld are all decisions that are being made by the executives of the CBS News Division, and possibly even higher.

No apology. No mea culpa. Just getting them fired isn't enough. This is a blatant attempt to manipulate a federal election through fraud and forgery. They should be prosecuted...all of them.