Roger Stone: The Man Behind Rathergate
Created By: boatsie
Last Modified: 11/13/05
Summary: What does Roger Stone have to do with Dan Rather? Well, wouldn't we all like to know. Stone, an original 'dirty trickster" who learned his trade under Watergate mastermind Chuck Colson, has been implicated in numerous sleezy political debacles ... but when the New York Post claimed he had manufactured the infamous Killian Memos, not a peep from major media...Link: The role of GOP operative Roger Stone, whose clout derives from Dick Cheney and other party heavyweights. Stone represented two competing Tribes simultaneously without their knowledge; his finger prints have been all over the BIA, which he helped to staff after the 2000 election recount. Why has Stone flown under the radar?
Summary: Stone & Cheney & Abramoff & Scanlon
Link: stone and casinos
Summary: following the money
Roger and Nydia Stone: Stone left Dole campaign after reports of his involvement in sex clubs. He resurfaced in Florida leading the protest over the recount.
Who is Roger Stone?"A slash-and-burn Republican black-bag election tamperer and consultant whose mentor was the repulsive Roy Cohn the redbaiting hatchet man for Senator Joe McCarthy. 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. A few other highlights of Stone career as the boastful black prince of Republican sleaze: Stone helped Ollie North raise money for the Nicaraguan contraswas a close associate of the notorious Lee Atwater (the GOP hit man who created the race-baiting Willie Horton TV spots for GHW Bush 1988 presidential campaign)From Jeffrey Toobin Too Close To Call on the 2000 Florida election: Stone was summoned by Bush recount chief James Baker to disrupt the vote counting Stone and his Cuban wife, Nydia, organized a screaming mob of Miami Cubans outside the headquarters of the canvassing board and Stone directed the mob by walkie-talkie from across the street. They intimidated the board into ending the count).Served as campaign chairman for 2004 Demo candidate Al SharptonNydia funds Sharpton campaign to insure his name is on the ballot.
Do you recognize this man?
A New York
A New York Post article identifies Stone as the individual who passed the forged documents on to Burkett at a Houston livestock show. Stone's wife, a Cuban American, is considered a possible match for the illusive "Lucy Ramirez,' the woman Burkett claims called him about the memos and suggested he turn them over to the Kerry campaign.
A false story
A false story about Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan in the '92 campaign claiming he has fathered an illegitimate child is tracced to Stone, who says "If there was a flyer, it wasn't from Roger Stone."
Link: Roger Stone suggested as source of Killian Memos
Summary: The Daily Kos, a 'liberal' blog provides outlines the long connection between GOP strategist Roger Stone and 'dirty trick' all the way back to pre-Watergate and up to his collusions with Rove on smear campaigns. Follow the Rove genius...including this gem "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."
Link: Lets Get Back to the Rathergate Memos
Summary: Democrats suggest that the source of the Killian memors if
Link: Wikipedia: The Killian Memos
Summary: A thorough non-biased detailing of the events surrounding Rathergate presenting a timeline of events and links to blogs, news articles, expert opinions and copies of the alleged forged documents.
Link: CBS' Mary Mapes, in 'Vanity Fair,' Defends Role in 'RatherGate'
Summary: Top CBS producer, fired for her role in broadcasting a story about Bush's TANG record based on fake documents writes about the events leading up to the fateful show and how ineffective CBS was in b acking Dan Rather.
So why did the media jump on Dan Rather rather than focusing on reports implicating GOP Lee Atwater protege Roger Stone? Nobody seems to remember or care anymore that faking official documents is a felony (wow this smells like Plamegate, doesn't it?) or that offical panelists were not able to determine if the Killian memos were actually fake....And what about the idea that woman, Lucy Ramirez, who contacted Burnettand, like all things Bush, are we forgetting the Rove factor ...
