Outstanding work on Rove's Dirty Tricks

sherlock google over at kos has been a very busy boy tracking karl and co's trail of dirt all the way back to 1972-73 and bringing it right up to today... i've said repeatedly that i think rove is diabolical and i hope that it all of this comes to full public view sooner or later, preferably sooner...one thing's for sure... it's this kind of spade-work that'll make it happen...

Rove/Stone/Gannon TANG Forgeries Timeline

or "Lucy Ramirez, You Got A Lot Of Splainin' To Do!"

* Denotes updated entry

* 1972 - 1973 - Col. Killian has Mrs. Knox type numerous memos for his personal file on the problem of George W. Bush and James Bath skipping their medical exam, not showing up for duty and trying to get special favors. The memos are typed on an old Olympia manual, which had an early "th" superscript--one unlike the forged CBS Killian memos. Mrs. Knox the typist herself says she typed those memos but the TANG Forgeries were not correct in some details. THAT MEANS THE 1972-3 KILLIAN ARE REAL. Try not to forget that--somewhere there are the actual manual typewriter memos that Marian Knox swears she typed.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091504dnpolnatguard.1185eb4ae.html

1972 - Roger Stone and Chuck Colson work together in the Dirty Tricks Department of the Nixon White House. "Stone first made news in the Nixon Watergate scandal, when it was revealed that the 19-year-old apprentice McCarthyite had infiltrated George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign as part of CREEP's sabotage plan." http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb04/Ireland0221.htm

1986 - Rove allegedly bugs his own office to smear Democrat Mark White in Texas Governor race. FBI Agent Rampton investigates but no charges are ever brought. The bug's battery use indicated it had operated for ONLY 15 MINUTES before it was discovered. http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-09-29/pols_naked3.html

http://www.documentaryfilms.net/Reviews/BushsBrain/

1990 - Rove destroys Jim Hightower in TX by having FBI Agent Rampton investigate all TX Democrat elected officials. http://www.documentaryfilms.net/Reviews/BushsBrain/

1992 - Phony Buchanan baby story hurts Pat in 1992 and in 2000, when he thought about the Reform Party. Mattie Lovlar betrays Stone and says they worked on it together. Stone denies it with his typical statement: "If there was a flyer, it wasn't from Roger Stone."

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0420,barrett,53586,6.html

1994 - Rove apparently starts whispering campaign about TX Governor Ann Richards being a coke-snorting lesbian. George W. Bush wins. http://www.documentaryfilms.net/Reviews/BushsBrain/

1996 - Stone's sex ad story in Enquirer and Star. Also reported that the Stones frequented DC sex club called The Capitol Couple. Stones deny the allegation, blaming a sick and disgruntled individual, but admits reveal that his own credit card paid for the ad. http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/09-96/09-13-96/a04wn026.htm

1996 - New Republic: Dana Milbank: "There were photos of her in a black negligee and him bare-chested, and there was an enumeration of her personal measurements. Stone said he had been set up, but he was forced to step down as an adviser to the Dole campaign." Stone goes on Today Show to deny it all. http://www.tnr.com/010300/milbank010300.html

1996 - According to someone who worked with him, in 1996 Karl Rove created flyers viciously attacking his own candidate, Harold See, running for Alabama State Supreme Court. The resulting backlash against the Democrat allowed See to win the race. http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_10.php#003688



2000 - According to James Moore, after losing NH primary, Rove apparently resorts to push-polling on McCain in the SC primary, intimating that McCain was mentally unstable, his wife was a drug addict and he had a black love-child from a prostitute. Bush campaign denies responsibility. http://www.documentaryfilms.net/Reviews/BushsBrain/



2000 - According to Jeffrey Toobin, Miami riot led by Stone, MacDougald also summoned by Baker. Nydia and her mother Olga help recruit Cubans for the Courthouse Riot and march advertised on Radio Mambi. From Dec. 4, 2000, Time Magazine: The organizers in the RV outside, who G.O.P. protesters have told Time were led by hardball Washington strategist Roger Stone, had phone banks churning out calls to Miami Republicans, urging them to storm downtown, while Stone directed the action with a walkie-talkie. (Stone could not be reached for comment.) - Jeffrey Toobin, Too Close to Call

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375761071/103-7025856-3836615?%5Fencoding=UTF8

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/1204/cover_riot.html

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0405,barrett,50745,1.html



Nov. 13, 2000 - Stone starts campaign to recall Democratic FL State Supreme Court Justices hearing the Gore vs. Bush case. Illegal campaign contributions eventually draw the attention of the FEC. http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/09/15_recount.html



2001 - According to Toobin, Cheney calls Roger Stone to thank him for Miami Courthouse Riot, asks him what he would like as compensation (Jeffrey Toobin, Too Close to Call).
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0405,barrett,50745,1.html

Feb 13, 2001 - Enquirer article on The Vault sex club in NYC says Roger and Nydia Stone used to be frequent customers. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4616/enq0213.html



2002 - Stone given lucrative Indian casino political consulting contracts. Stone allegedly does political dirty trick hit on BIA official standing in way of his casino clients. http://www.indianz.com/News/archive/001861.asp



2002 - According to James Moore, Rove said to be behind GA Senate race ad associating Max Cleland with Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. http://www.documentaryfilms.net/Reviews/BushsBrain/

* Summer 2003 -Gannon publishes series of political hit pieces on Tom Daschle and a reporter friend Kranz, who Gannon accuses of being on the Daschle campaign payroll. Conservative bloggers trumpet the false charge. S. Dakota's major paper, the Argus Leader, later admits the charges affected their coverage of the race. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0220-28.htm

* 2003 - Following rumors Al Sharpton may drop out of Presidential race and endorse Wesley Clark, Roger Stone calls up Sharpton and offers to manage his campaign and help him fundraise. http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0405,barrett,50745,1.html

January 17, 2004 - Michael Moore "Deserter" charge, Wesley Clark supports Moore's right to say it 5 days later. http://www.factcheck.org/article131.html

End of January 2004 - Kerry says Bush's TANG records not important. Terry McAuliffe says Bush was AWOL.

February 10, 2004 - White House does document dump and says it is the full release of Bush's TANG records--but later on many more real docs show up.
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/021004_bushmil.pdf

February 12, 2004 - Bill Burkett appears on Hardball and with James Moore tells the story of how in 1997 he heard Joe Albaugh from Bush's office talk to Adjutant General David James on speaker phone, to tell him that Dan Bartlett and Karen Hughes will be down to "clean up" then-Governor Bush's TANG files. This trip was ostensibly to write a book but really to prepare for his 1998 and 2000 runs and make sure nothing embarrassing was in the records. Chris Matthews asks Burkett to swear that he is telling the truth, as if he were in court. Burkett does. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6055867/

After February 12, 2004 - [MY SPECULATION:] Rove and Bartlett, certainly alarmed at Burkett's appearance on Hardball, presumably hatch phony TANG documents plot and create forgeries with slight mistakes on the wrong typewriter, an electric typewriter. If it was them, they would have used the Olympia Manual memos Mrs. Knox said she originally typed for Killian in 1972 and 1973. They would then have called Stone and asked him to get them to Burkett, the perfect patsy for their scheme.

After February 12, 2004 - Bill Burkett says he starts receiving calls from a lady with a Latin accent named "Lucy Ramirez", who could be Nydia Stone, the Cuban wife of GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone [REGEN MAN'S SPECULATION]. "Lucy" tells Burkett she has previously unknown memos from Col. Killian and that he Burkett should get them and give them to the Kerry campaign. She also convinces him to burn the originals so she can never be identified. Burkett thinks she is trying to keep an old sexual affair with Killian secret. Burkett arranges with "Lucy" to meet her at the huge Houston Livestock Show..
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/23/cbs.documents/

March 3, 2004 - According to Burkett's second story, the Unknown Man asks for him at Livestock Show, finds him and hands him envelope containing the CBS TANG forgeries without saying a word (source: Bill Burkett USA TODAY) USA TODAY confirms that ANOTHER person, an unnamed woman, said Burkett gave her papers that day which she held for him until the event was over in a box. Burkett and USA Today know who this woman is. So the likelihood is that Burkett is telling the truth when he said he was given the envelope by the Unknown Man. Burkett has never been given a photo of Stone to ID.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/23/cbs.documents/

March to August, 2004 - For whatever reason, Burkett sits on the memos for five months until the Swift Boat ads enrage him and he calls up Max Cleland. Cleland tells him he'll talk to Kerry but no one calls Burkett back on the documents. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6055867/

* August 2004 - Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad smears John Kerry. Bobby Eberle, owner of Talon News and employer of Jeff Gannon, contributes heavily to SBVT 527 group.

August 2004 - Mary Mapes, CBS Producer following up on TANG/AWOL, asks Burkett if there is anything new on the TANG story. He tells her of the Killian memos, thinking them real and that CBS News would have them checked by experts.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-21-cover-guard_x.htm

August 2004 - Roger and Nydia Stone miss first Republican Convention since 1968, taking a vacation in Spain. Stone says "It's pathetic that we are fighting over John Kerry's war record in Vietnam and George W. Bush's service in the National Guard given that there are a bunch of Islamic maniacs who want to wipe us off the face of the earth. I'll be on a beach in Barcelona." http://www.jewsweek.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enD ispWho=Article%5El1391&enZone=Articles&enVersion=0

* Sept 6-7, 2004 CBS Producer Mary Mapes, working on authenticity of Killian memos receives communications from document experts warning her the docs cannot be confirmed and that in fact look suspicious. Rather set to interview Bartlett on authenticity of docs on Sept. 8 but weather forces John Roberts to fill in.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31727-2004Sep18_3.html

* Sept. 8, 2004 - CBS reports that on the Killian memos Dan Bartlett told John Roberts in the morning that "I have no reason to doubt their authenticity" so many times in the same way Roberts notes it in his book. Presumably this was the comment decided upon by he and Rove to make that day. Bartlett also says, "The memorandum in your possession shows that he spoke to the commander who made that order to talk about his personal situation and the fact that he is going to Alabama. So at every step of the way, President Bush was meeting his requirement. Granted permission to meet his requirement. And that's why President Bush was honorably discharged." Because Bartlett had used the forged copies to say that Bush fulfilled his TANG requirements, Roberts told his superiors, the memos are authenticated. Had Roberts been "played"? The trap, whoever forged the documents, was ready to close on Rather and destroy the potency of the TANG/AWOL issue. From the WaPo on CBS exec Josh Howard, trying to decide whether to run the story or not: "Howard was struck by the fact that Bartlett, in his interview, kept referring to the Killian memos to support his argument that the president had fulfilled his military obligations. `This gave us such a sense of security at that moment that we had the story,' Howard said. `We gave the documents to the White House to say, 'Wave us off this if we're wrong.' ` But Bartlett said CBS never asked him to verify the memos and that he had neither the time nor the resources to do so." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31727-2004Sep18_3.html

Sept. 8, 2004 - First CBS report on Killian memos. To protect a lady's honor, Southern Gentleman Burkett intimates that a fellow National Guard officer gave him the TANG memos.

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. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?more=25054500;name=Buckhead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?more=22146919;name=Buckhead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?more=22029527;name=Buckhead

* 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. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219472/posts

* 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 and not McClellan (to provide deniability for the Press Secretary). He clearly received a "scoop" from this unknown person that Mapes was the CBS producer responsible. BEFORE writing his own scoop, 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 [CBS] network, and now there's doubts about their authenticity has taken place." [The Sean Hannity Show, 9/10/04]

Sept. 11, 2004 - Rather interviews Mrs. Knox, who tells him she typed memos like the docs but those are not them. She had an Olympia manual with only a primitive superscript "th", not an electric typewriter. Total corporatist media uproar over Rather not backing down. Burkett now admits the hint Conn gave him the memos was a ruse, that he was still trying to protect the honor of Lucy Ramirez. Press uses this change in story to discredit him. (help me find transcript link)

Sept. 11, 2004 - Dallas Morning News reveals inclusion of Staudt in 1973 Killian is incorrect and proves it to be a forgery. This was one of the main tip-offs inserted presumably by Bartlett and Rove to expose the forgery.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/elections2004/stories/091104dnpolguard.1 17c8.html

Sept. 15, 2004 - Marian Knox, Killian's secretary, recounts errors in TANG forgeries for the Dallas Morning News, including the inclusion of the Staudt name in the forged "sugar-coat" memo of 1973 and the word "billets" instead of "barracks". http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091504dnpolnatguard.1185eb4ae.html

Sept. 17, 2004 - Another Gannon story on Mapes with supposed inside source at CBS: "Sooner of (sic) later something like this was going to happen. When you see how hard they've been working this National Guard story, you know they weren't going to come up empty-handed one way or another."

Sept. 20, 2004 - Kerry starts attacking Bush heavily on Iraq War, gives 4-point plan for Iraq. Memo coverage dies down, as all pundits echo desire to get to issues of the present rather than dwelling on the past.

Sept. 20, 2004 - CBS News retracts claim of authenticity for Killian memos. Burkett admits a fellow Guard officer did not give him documents and tells of Lucy and the Unknown Man giving him the memos.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/15/60II/main643768.shtml

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. Stone later denies allegation but never provides an alibi for where he was on March 3, 2004, the day the Unknown Man gave Bill Burkett the envelope with the TANG Forgeries inside. http://www.democrats.org/news/200409210003.html

http://www.democrats.org/news/200409210001.html

Sept. 21, 2004 - USA Today article on both parties accusing the other of forging the memos. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-21-cbs-parties_x.htm

Sept. 22, 2004 - Former New York Times columnist William Safire, quoting "U.S. Criminal Code, Chapter 63, Section 1343," wrote that a federal offense might actually have been committed when Rather and Mapes tried to hide their deception. "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. At the root of what is today treated as an embarrassing blunder by duped CBS journalists," Safire wrote, "may turn out to be a felony by its faithless sources." (This was no doubt written by Safire a few days before the NY Post article on Roger Stone being the rumored source of the forgeries) http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/22/221524.shtml

* Sept. 22, 2004 - Gannon enters White House on a No Briefing Day at 11:57 and leaves at 12:34. The next day he comes out with another political hit piece on Mapes.

Sept. 23, 2004 - Gannon goes after Mapes in this 9/23 Talon News story--now scrubbed:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220416/posts

Sept. 24 2004 - After lawsuit, White House releases 1971 document showing the TANG Killian memos could have had superscript type in 1972. Republicans had been attacking TANG forgeries because they had superscript "th" and by withholding this document they had let Rather twist in the wind. Lost in the whole uproar is the fact that Mrs. Knox verified that there were original memos that she typed (on a manual with only a primitive superscript capability) and someone must have forged the CBS copies. http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=324

Sept. 2004 - GOP House members, maybe getting call from White House, or seeing Stone rumor reports, DROP calls for a Wire Fraud investigation, as does the retiring William Safire. (could use a link on original story of GOP calling for Wire Fraud investigation)

Sept. 2004 - Media ignores Roger Stone angle and trumpets the Fall of Dan Rather. No further mention of Stone at all. White House never asks for an inquiry into who forged phony military documents in Killian memo case.

* Sept. 29, 2004 - Dick Wadham, a Rove pal, had put winger bloggers John Lauck and Jason Van Beek on the payroll of the Thune campaign. From somewhere, perhaps his Sept. 22 time in the White House, Gannon writes a "scoop" on how Democratic leader Tom Daschle claims a special tax exemption for his house in DC by saying he is a D.C. resident. Senate opponent Thune runs ad with Daschle saying "I'm a DC resident", almost immediately thereafter. This ad/political hit piece had an impact which hurt Daschle, because you must be a resident of the state you are representing. The winger bloggers trumpet the charge against Daschle. Roll Call: "Daschle aides told Roll Call, "This guy (Gannon) became the dumping ground for opposition research."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0220-28.htm

February 2005 - Bill Burkett still stands by his story of Lucy Ramirez and the Unknown Man.

* April 2005 - FOIA Secret Service logs on Gannon released.

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/secret_service_gannon_424.htm

Other Diaries:

Gannon scoop shows White House Forged TANG/CBS memos?!?! by Regeneration Man

White House vs. CBS by Anonymous Army

Gannon/Guckert Timeline by Silence

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