September 21, 2004

BURKETT says he gave the forged documents to Kerry campaign staffer Max Cleland, reports Fox News.

UPDATE: The AP has it that Max Cleland claims he knew nothing about the contents of the forged documents.

Still, one has to wonder. CBS News reported yesterday that the news organization first approached Bill Burkett about the documents, and that Burkett did not first approach them. How did CBS know about the documents? If the information didn't come from the Kerry campaign, where did it come from? The suspicion that the information did come from the Kerry campaign was first raised by the fact that the Kerry campaign began its most recent attacks on George Bush's National Guard record about a week before the CBS News fake documents story broke ..

More analysis and a timeline here. (via InstaPundit). Posted by Greg Ransom