September 16, 2004

It's Burkett

Headway has been made in the search of the forged documents' source. CBS News had Robert Strong look at the memos before being interviewed. He saw the words "Kinko's Abilene" on one of the memos. The Washington Post found one Kinko's in Abilene, TX, and it's 21 miles away from Bill Burkett's home.

Kevin McCullough called the Abilene Kinko's and found out Burkett has an account there.

USA Today got the memos independently of CBS News. Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard have been working on the Bush/National Guard story for some time. In 2001, the two completed a series on "ghost soldiers" people who were still on National Guard rolls but didn't show up for drill and weren't paid. One of their sources for the series was Bill Burkett.

The NY Times goes right out and says (through a CBS source) Burkett is the source.

We've found our man, and fortuantely for Kerry Edwards he isn't a paid employee of the campaign. However, that doesn't mean the campaign or the DNC didn't have anything to do with this. Note The American Spectator article that has an annoymous DNC insider claiming both the DNC and Kerry Edwards knew about the memos.

"CBS Guard Documents Traced to Tex. Kinko's" [via Wizbang]

"Ex-Guardsman Is Said to Be a CBS Source"