Burkett will not go gently into that sweet night. He is now accusing CBS of various things while also accusing DNC big shot Joe Lockhart of asking for the docs. Guys like Safire are standing up saying it was a crime. This one won't go away so fast. BUT... the ever honest DNC/Kerry Campaign has "proof, proof I tell you

To put it bluntly, this was conclusively a Republican plot, but CBS screwed it up. The "Burkett memos" were a plot hatched last March in order to neutralize a very dangerous witness against the President.------ Daily Kos

This will be the Democratic Party Line that will be continuously offered by distant surrogates, never anyone close to the Kerry camp. Stories far and wide that Burkett is being smeared, that he's not a whack job and so on are pouring out from the usual suspects. MSM is not biting on this stuff only because they don't want to look even worse than they do now.

AND THEN WE HAVE THIS from William Safire that nobody wants to look at

Whoever, having devised any scheme or artifice to defraud transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. " U.S. Criminal Code, Chapter 63, Section 1343.

This was an attempt to change an election, and don't ever forget it.