Reply #42: Swiftboating 60 Minutes, Dan Rather, and the Niger Forgery and Bush AWOL Stories

[L. Coyote]

UPDATE: Rove/Stone/Gannon TANG Forgeries Timeline!
by Sherlock Google
Wed Apr 27, 2005 at 12:10:27 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/27/151028/467

Just Part of a Timeling on dKos: "Some of this has been proved and some is logical conjecture...."

* September 8, 2004 - Within 18 minutes of the end of the TANG report, posts from "Buckhead" appear on FreeRepublic.com, saying he thinks something is phony. Within a few hours, Buckhead is putting forth forensic analyses of fonts and proportional spacing, claiming the memos are forged and actually word-processed. Buckhead soon identified as Harry MacDougald, who worked under Roger Stone in the 2000 Miami riot. ....

* September 9, 2004 - Winger Bloggers, including MacDougald's own wife Liz, plus the media, develops and trumpets forgery claim, discrediting Rather and whole TANG issue. Liz MacDougald forwards "Buckhead's" posts without revealing she is his wife. ....

* September, 10 2004 - Jeff Gannon enters White House at 11:19 and leaves at 12:55 on a day there was no briefing. Gannon talked to someone, likely Bartlett or Rove ... Gannon tells Sean Hannity about Mapes, effectively giving up the scoop to score the bigger political hit of letting Hannity have it -and enrage all his listeners. Hannity: HANNITY: "Now, Jeff Gannon, who is a terrific Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent for Talon News, actually shot me an e-mail today, and he's about to break a story in an exclusive about these CBS documents." HANNITY: "And apparently they're also, according to Jeff Gannon, the -- Talon News -- this woman, Mary Mapes, this Dallas producer, is under pressure for the network, and now there's doubts about their authenticity has taken place." ....

* Sept. 21, 2004 - NY Post reports rumors that Roger Stone got the forgeries to Burkett. He has no comment. MacCauliffe repeats the Stone charge and asks the White House and RNC what they know about Stone and the documents.

* Sept. 25 2004 - After being exposed in the press, CBS announces that it will not run Niger Yellowcake Forgery report until AFTER the election,