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Rove challenges Dems and CBS

Washington Times:

White House political adviser Karl Rove yesterday scoffed at Democratic charges that he was somehow behind the release of faked documents to CBS that attacked President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard.
And he returned fire, saying there are plenty of outstanding questions that Democrats must answer about their involvement with CBS anchorman Dan Rather's now-discredited story, which heavily relied on the bogus memos.

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Mr. Rove also said it's not for him to demand an apology from Mr. Rather to the president. But he said it was noteworthy that Mr. Rather has yet to admit that the documents were forged, instead saying only that their authenticity cannot be proved.
"He's probably the only person in America that still thinks there's a possibility these are true and accurate documents," Mr. Rove said.

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"What did Mary Mapes tell Lockhart? We haven't heard from her on this. Who did Lockhart tell what to in the campaign? What other contacts were there between CBS and people in the campaign?" he said.
He then said Mr. McAuliffe and the DNC must answer questions about their own series of attacks on Mr. Bush's National Guard record, which he said "broke coincidentally with the CBS story."
"I mean, they'd have to be awful nimble to have prepared all those ads and materials without foreknowledge. And the question is: Did they have foreknowledge, and if so from who, and why?"
Mr. Rove said the Kerry campaign has shifted in the past few weeks toward a strategy of personal attacks with the addition of new advisers, some of them former Clinton aides, including Mr. Lockhart.
"When they arrived, they made it clear that they were going to run a campaign of character at the president, which was a polite way of saying they were going to run a campaign of character assassination. And they've been true to their word," he said.
"When you have to defend as many different positions and votes as he has offered up, you want to change the subject. And the best way to change the subject, as this crowd on the other side believes clearly, is to go after the personal character of their opponent."