bill burkett

I see that there isn't a thread on this, so I thought I would start out by stating my firm belief that the so-called Killian memos aired by Dan Rather during a 60 Minutes II episode on Wednesday, September 8, 2004 were crude (and "rather" obvious) forgeries. A definitive analysis is provided...

Dan Rather has filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS claiming that the Bush administration forced the network censor and cover up the Bush military record story that ended up causing Rather's resignation from the network. The suit claims that his public apology was forced by CBS and led to...

Reuters They are way over the line.

Despite Dan Rather admitting that the memos "can't be authenticated", I still hold on to the possibility of them being genuine because I heard there were typewriters back then that could do it. I also still refuse to examine any overlays done with IBM selectrics versus those done with word...

I'm creating this thread for all of the supposition, guesstimating, and theorizing we want to do for the memo. I think we should indulge ourselves and go into the realm of the unprovable if only for fun and to see if someone is actually proved right later on. So far the thoeries already put...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-14-memos-forgeries_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

An allegation that Bush aides reviewed and cleaned the records reported in NY Times, and in a soon to be published book. Interestingly, the complaint was made in 1998. However, it is very difficult to judge truthfulness of these allegations at this time. This might explain the mystery of the...