Lying Lockhart

Joe Lockhart, newly appointed senior advisor to the Kerry campaign and former Press Secretary for President Clinton, is following in the former President's mendacious footsteps.   As the NY Post's Deborah Orin points out, Lockhart's assertion that he did not discuss the forged National Guard documents with Bill Burkett strains credulity.

Plus, the other guy on the phone, Bill Burkett, told a reporter from the Dallas Star-Telegram that Lockhart tried to "convince me as to why I should give them the documents." [Correction: the Star-Telegram has printed a correction to this article, stating that they misquoted Burkett. Burkett was evidently referring to discussions he had with CBS when he spoke about being convinced to hand over the documents.]

Maybe Lockhart wasn't lying, after all...