Kerry Aide Talked to Bush Guard Docs Figure

40yearfan · September 22nd, 2004, 01:37 PM

Kerry Aide Talked to Bush Guard Docs Figure
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Fox News

NEW YORK — At the suggestion of a CBS News producer, a top adviser to John Kerry talked to the man at the center of the National Guard "memogate" imbroglio before the disputed documents were revealed, FOX News has confirmed.

Joe Lockhart (search) said he got a call from CBS the Saturday before the Sept. 8 broadcast which launched the network into a firestorm of controversy.

The CBS representative alerted Lockhart that a man in Texas, Bill Burkett (search), was interested in helping the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Lockhart then called Burkett, a former Texas Army National Guard official who CBS says provided the doubtful documents.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132996,00.html

40yearfan · September 22nd, 2004, 01:39 PM

From above article:

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The White House called the exchange evidence of coordination between the Kerry campaign and Burkett.

"The fact that CBS News would coordinate with the most senior levels of Senator Kerry's campaign is a stunning and deeply troubling revelation that raises serious questions," said White House spokesman Dan Bartlett. "It's time for the Kerry campaign to come clean about their involvement in this growing scandal and for Senator Kerry to immediately hold accountable anyone in his campaign that was involved."