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How did Dan Rather become the Kinko's copy boy for the Democratic party? Dan Rather won't break this story, but the Kinko's in Abilene might. It stands ready to cooperate with investigating authorities.

A former Kinko's employee in California tells TAS (in an e-mail and phone interview) that Kinko's may be able to solve the mystery. ‘My suspicion is that the 20-mile automobile drive to Kinko's by Burkett may not have been only to fax the documents. Fax machines are probably available a lot closer to Bill Burkett's home, if not at his home,’ the ex-employee said in an e-mail. ‘As a former Kinko's “computer services” employee, I once created documents for customers. I never knowingly created a false document. But I was asked several times to do just that sort of thing and refused.’

What happens at Kinko's stays at Kinko's - in their computer files. As the former employee noted: ‘It is possible that Kinko's created this document. Unless the Kinko's employee had knowledge of the scheme, he or she could have innocently done the basic typesetting…There may be a record of it. If Burkett paid for this with a credit card, there would be a record, too.’

’The forged files could be on the computer services department typesetting computer used exclusively by an employee. Someone should ask. Perhaps the District (State) or U.S. Attorney should send investigators with warrants,’ the ex-employee writes. ‘The affixing of a signature by Bill Burkett could have occurred after the document was created, right there at Kinko's. A few generations of copies with the pasted-on signatures - or forged signatures - and you have a felony
committed at Kinko's.

One of several reasons why Dan Rather will never, E-E-EVER reveal that a lunatic like Bill Burkett is his source, or one of them.

And yet the wheels of justice are still turning on this debacle, whether Rather and CBS like it or not.

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