Jeff Goldstein, who has been one of the bloggers out in front on the Rathergate memo fiasco, adds some interesting conjecture to the mix. Who was the source and why did CBS think it was reliable?
One of the main targets of source speculation is Democratic operative Bill Burkett, but he's a known nutter too partisan and previously unreliable to be the sole source for something of this magnitude. Thus, Goldstein surmises that Ben Barnes, the former Texas House Speaker who claimed he pulled the strings to get Bush into the National Guard (a story uncovered as a lie by his own daughter) is the source who tipped CBS to the documents and that Burkett is the forger. Check out his whole post (ignore the weird stuff, Jeff seems a little self-indulgent in strange ways) and his links.
Meanwhile, the NYT reports that CBS claims it was misled.
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