SCOTT McCLELLAN:
ED GILLESPIE:
Carl Cameron was just on Fox saying Cleland confirmed there was contact with Burkett. He also said that Kerry was pushing this 60 Minutes piece as a "must see" to his traveling press for several weeks PRIOR to it coming out. Cleland had made statements to the travelling press that he had the goods on President Bush's National Guard Service.
The real source is probably Glenn Smith, the founder of Texans for Truth. They were laundered to Burkett-- a simpleton stooge.
Smith is the point man for the Kerry campaign 527s on the issue of Bush's National Guard service. It was his responsibility to get something like these memos out into the news stream. He was a political operative of Gov. Ann Richards when Bush ran against her in 1994. It was his job then to dig up dirt on Bush. Since he worked for the Gov, it would have been no problem for him to go down to the National Guard and look through their records for anything that could be used against Bush. In fact he would be derelict if he hadn't. Smith can't be revealed as the one that passed on the memos because that would link the 527s to the Kerry Campaign. Also, Smith is a personal friend of Robin Rather-- an active partisan Texas Democrat. Dan knows Smith is "unimpeachable" because his beloved daughter thinks he is.
