Cancelled 60 Minutes Investigation: "Rationale for War in Iraq"
CBS says it would be "inappropriate to air this close to the election."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x897666Story was set to air Sept. 8 but was preempted by the National Guard Memos.
See, this is what disturbs me.
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"Forged" CBS Docs Were Planted by Miami Cuban Operative "Lisa Ramirez"
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...to Discredit Kerry and/or Burkett; Rather picked up story unexpectedly,
and accidentally took a bullet that was meant for Kerry.
Evidence now points to Bush Campaign adviser Karl Rove, who has illegally
possessed originals of all Bush Guard docs prior to their release, as the
ultimate source of the allegedly fabricated Bush memos.
The fabricator and/or courier for the versions given to CBS was a woman
"Lisa Ramirez" who is tied, throuh previous incidents (against Al Gore)
to an East Coast Republican operative and alleged sex fiend Roger Stone.
See below for more info on Stone (and his Cuban in-laws).
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Texan Bill Burkett, a possibly unstable ex-TANG whistleblower and patsy,
the man who gave CBS the memos, says he "lied" about the source because
the source told him to. She also told him to burn the originals,
and he did. "I thought to myself, wow, this is like some kind of sci-fi
movie," Burkett explained.
Burkett is now suing CBS for implying he forged the documents in an effort
to close the book on the story. The actual source of the docs, according
to the USA Today, was a hispanic woman named "Lisa Ramirez", who promised
to meet Burkett at a Houston trade show. When he arrived at the trade show,
an undidentified white man dropped them in his lap without explanation.
This is corroborated by a distant acquaintance of Burkett's who went with him
to do business at the livestock show.
It turns out that there was an expose on a similar incident by a "Lisa Ramirez"
who delivered forged video of Bush preparing for the 2000 debates in an effort
to throw off the Gore's campaign.
The ploy worked, and after Gore stammered in the first debate, it was revealed
that "Lisa Ramirez", assumed to be a Texas Democrat because she was hispanic--
may have been a Miami Cuban and a relative (or an impersonator) of Nydia Stone,
a member of a "prominent" Miami Cuban family -- who happens to be married
to Roger Stone, the #1 Republican dirty tricks operative and a childhood
friend of Bush campaign adviser Karl Rove.
This info about Ramirez was reported in 2000 years before she contacted Burkett.
Roger Stone Bio:
In addition to being related to Miami Cuban mobsters through marriage,
Stone personally oversaw the riot at the Miami election offices in 2000
via walkie talkie from across the street, successfully shutting down the
Dade county election recount after an election official was assaulted by
a crowd of Cuban men and white Congressional Aides from Washington,
changing the outcome of the race.
Nydia's relative Antonio Ramirez represented the Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez.
In 2004, Stone coordinated the Al Sharpton campaign.
In 1996, as one of Dole's campaign coordinators, he and his wife Nydia
(possibly the infamous "Lisa Ramirez") were outed after publishing semi-nude
pictures of themselves in an advertisement for group sex in a Swingers magazine.
Stone denied it, stating that the photos were taken from (in his case)
a weightlifting competition and (in her case) a modeling career.
(Photos showed Roger Stone wearing nothing but a towel, with a black bar over his eyes,
and Nydia lying down in an alluring position wearing a dominatrix get-up.
They appeared in National Enquirer and led to Stone's resignation from the Dole camp.)
In the 1970's, Stone worked for Chuck Colson as part of the Committee to Re-Elect the
President (CREEP). He subsequently won the leadership of the Young Republicans (NYRC)
in the late '70s, in a race where he was denounced by his opponents for his Nixon work.
In the 1980s, Stone was Lee Atwater's boss at a time when Atwater was Rove's boss.
Stone was also portrayed by author Tom Wolfe during this period as "the epitome
of '80's greed in Washington" and the original model for the new breed of flashy
diamond-cufflinked corporate lobbyists who sprung up in the '80s.
Since 2000, Stone has used his contacts in the Interior Department as a reward for
his service in Florida to set up a profitable multi-million-dollar Indian Gambling
"consulting" business, which is now his primary occupation.
Stone and Karl Rove (W's Campaign Manager) have been friends since adolescence.
As a Young Republican in the 60's, during which period the NYRC represented the
hard core of the Republican Goldwaterites, Stone was a "protege" of Roy Cohn,
and exceptionally close to several other prominent closeted proteges of Cohn
who have since died of AIDS. This may explain why Stone's wife prefers
"muscular jocks and well-built Marine types", according to the 1996 ad.
Stone currently lives in Manhattan, where the New York POST first reported gossip
in Republican circles early THIS WEEK, that Stone was the source of the CBS docs
and possibly forged them himself (he runs campaign ops out of a graphics company.)
After Stone replied with a "no comment", the Democratic National Committee risked
an enormous bluff by publically issuing a press release the same day accusing Stone
of forging the CBS Guard Docs. Tellingly, there was no response.
GOP response, which had been to confront Dems on nightly news shows all week
about the source of the CBS "forged by the Kerry campaign" docs, was silence.
On top of that, all scheduled GOP campaign and talk-show appearances were canceled
for the evening and replaced with a 10 PM secret strategy session.
Since then, GOP and talking heads have been SILENT on who forged the CBS docs...
instead they're directing their efforts towards an e-mail campaign to force
Dan Rather to step down from CBS and force 60 Minutes to cease any further
reportage critical of Bush. This campaign is had marked progress this week as
talk show hosts now openly saying Rather may be forced to resign.
No rebuttal to the Stone allegation has been issued and no mention of
"Lisa Ramirez of Houston's" role in the 2000 Debates, or Stone's role
in the 2000 election has been made in the media.
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W's #1 Campaign Adviser Karl Rove, described as "Bush's Brain" by insiders,
has a long history of fabricating documents that make his candidate look bad,
in an effort to discredit his opponent's allegations by revealing the forgery.
And also to discredit the source from revealing future, more damaging allegations.
In debate class, it's known as "poisoning the well". Karl Rove, a Texan, even has
his own word for it: "Ratfucking" the opponent (or media friendly to the opponent).
In fact, the subject of this week's CANCELED 60 Mins story is presumed to
be just such a document, a possibly forged memo describing whether or not
Iraq was trying to smuggle "yellowcake" uranium out of Africa.
(Iraq already had 900,000 pounds of yellowcake on hand, "legally" from before the Gulf War.)
The "yellowcake memo" was used to discredit U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson, whose
wife was "outed" as a CIA NOC in retaliation for Wilson coming out against the
infamous "13 words" about "yellowcake" in the Bush declaration of war.
Columnist Robert Novak, who did the "outing" at the request of an unnamed source
high in the Bush administration, later justified it "against the advice of my attorney"
by declaring, in print, that Valerie Plame's husband was: a "known Democratic activist"
who should never have been appointed to the Niger mission -- and therefore Plame
"deserved" to be outed as a CIA agent in charge of nonproliferation.
An FBI investigation of senior administration staffers is ongoing. Outing a CIA NOC
is considered an act of treason, and, unusually for a case involving unnamed source,
several journalists were coerced by the FBI into providing information on who contacted
them and why. Four or five journalists in addition to Novak were told Plame's identity.
FBI is now interviewing senior aides to Cheney and (!) campaign adviser Karl Rove.
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