***More info. surfaces about fake documents Max quoted***

[mburbank]

Oh, and let me through this out there as a long range prediction about how these forgeries reached Rather.

Follow my assumptions

1.) Rather almost certainly loathes the Bush clan. He makes some effort to keep this out of of his broadcasts, but he has a long history with the family, and how could any serious journalist, even one as wacky as Dan, not hate W deep down?

2.) Dan is wacky.

3.) 1 + 2 makes Dan a perfect Mark for a con job.

4.) In W's gubernatorial and presidential runs, there have always been attempts by someone to drop choice bits of information ito the opponents lap and see what they did with it. There has been widespread speculation an a ggood deal of evidence to suggest the con artist is... well, wait for it a second, because

5.) When SOMEONE dropped a video tape iof W's debate prep at Gores office, they were smart enough to immediately turn it over to the justice department. They were wise to the game. It's safe to assume since Kery is advised by some of the same folks who advise Gore that they too would be wise, practically waiting for this sort of con.

6.) If you can't punk Kerry, who do you punk? The media is the obvious choice.

7.) Who in the media do the Bush camp have a lengthy history of hating above all other newscasters? Dan Rather.

8.) All these assumptions taken into account, I smell Karl Rove. Maybe I'm way out on a limb here, but just remember I said it first.