LA Times Busts Buckhead

[ruggerson]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-091704buckhead_lat,1,494535.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Clinton Crusader]

1. crap, only for registered users

:kick:

[Fleshdancer]

3. here are the first four paragraphs:

WASHINGTON — It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles.

But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought. Instead, it was the work of Harry W. MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Times has found.

The identity of "Buckhead," a blogger known previously only by his screen name on the site freerepublic.com and lifted to folk hero status in the conservative blogosphere since last week's posting, is likely to fuel speculation among Democrats that the efforts to discredit the CBS memos were engineered by Republicans eager to undermine reports that Bush received preferential treatment in the National Guard more than 30 years ago.

Republican officials have denied any involvement among those debunking the CBS story.

[henslee]

6. fear not, BUGMENOT.COM will give you site acess w/out signing up...

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Someone at DU turned me onto it.

[Mojambo]

24. Wow! Cool site.

Thanks.

[Darby]

8. info from www.martindale.com

Harry W. MacDougald
Of Counsel
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
One Atlantic Center, 1201 West Peachtree Street
Suite 3500
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
(Fulton Co.)
Telephone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Email: Send an Email


Rated AV

Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Constitutional Litigation

Admitted: 1985, Georgia; 1997, United States Supreme Court; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; Georgia Court of Appeals; U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits

Law School: University of Georgia, J.D., cum laude, 1985

College: Brown University, A.B., 1980

Member: Atlanta Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia.

Biography: Member, Federalist Society, 1985—. Legal Advisory Board, Atlanta Chapter, 2000—.

Reported Cases: Bankhead v. Lucas Aerospace, Inc. 878 F.Supp. 221 (N.D. Ga. 1994); affid. Sub nom. McLeroy v. Lucas Aerospace, Inc., 98 F.3d 1351 (11th Cir. 1996), certified question answered sum. nom. Wausau Inc. Co. v. McLeroy, 266 GA. 794, 471 S.E.2d 504 (1996); Alford v. Osei-Kwasi, 203 Ga.App. 716, 418 S.E. 2d 79 (1992); Schmidt v. Adams, 211 Ga.App. 156, 438 S.E.2d 659 (1993); McLendon v. Priest, 259 Ga. 59, 376 S.E. 2d 679 (1989); Franklyn Gesner Fine Paintings, Inc. v. Ketcham, 259 Ga. 3, 375 S.E., 2d 848 (1989); First United Bank of Mississippi v. First Natl. Bank of Atlanta, 255 Ga. 505; 340 S.E.2d 597 (1986).

Born: Atlanta, Georgia, August 12, 1958

ISLN: 905282495


Web Site: http://www.wcsr.com

[teach1st]

2. Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-091704buckhead_lat,1,494535.story?coll=la-home-headlines

WASHINGTON — It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles.

But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought. Instead, it was the work of Harry W. MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Times has found.

The identity of "Buckhead," a blogger known previously only by his screen name on the site freerepublic.com and lifted to folk hero status in the conservative blogosphere since last week's posting, is likely to fuel speculation among Democrats that the efforts to discredit the CBS memos were engineered by Republicans eager to undermine reports that Bush received preferential treatment in the National Guard more than 30 years ago.

Republican officials have denied any involvement among those debunking the CBS story.

[skooooo]

4. ...and continues

"Freepers collectively possess more analytical horsepower than the entire news division at CBS," he wrote in an e-mail, using the slang term for users of the freerepublic site.

[ruggerson]

34. kick

[qanda]

5. Man, did they ever...

I'd be interested in his phone records myself.

[0rganism]

11. Maybe if Rep. Cox gets his investigation, we can find out who called who

Let's see them follow that line of inquiry, shall we?

[Trajan]

7. One of my pet peeves ...

Posting threads with URL's and nothing else ...

[DoBotherMe]

9. Another RW operation

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x833235


Two DC firms ramp up efforts over latest presidential controversies

WASHINGTON: Two DC PR agencies eagerly fanned the flames of election-year scandal last week - one for the left and one for the right.




Creative Response Concepts (CRC), the VA-based agency promoting the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, used right-wing blogs and news sites to turn a CBS report casting doubt on President George W. Bush's National Guard service into a potential black eye for both the network and the Democrats.

A CRC client, the Cybercast News Service (CNS), was among the first to voice suspicion that documents suggesting Bush had received preferential treatment in the Guard were forgeries.

"After the CBS story aired, called typographical experts, got them on the record that these papers were fishy, and posted a story by 3pm Thursday," said CRC SVP Keith Appell. "We were immediately in contact with Drudge, who loved the story."

Much more here:

http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story_free.cfm?ID=22258...

[janx]

16. Yep. And the freeps swallowed the whole thing, proud that

they of all people were the ones to "expose" the documents as fake.

;-)

All the right-wing political machine has to do is throw some crumbs and watch a scandal grow...

[LisaM]

18. That headline (re the ad agencies) is misleading

at the end, it simply states that Doubleday is using a PR firm. Nothing about backdoor tactics.

[janx]

20. I agree. n/t

[mourningdove92]

10. Here is a few more paragraphs

Reached by telephone today, MacDougald, 46, confirmed that he is Buckhead, but declined to answer questions about his political background or how he knew so much about the CBS documents so fast.

"You can ask the questions but I'm not going to answer them," he told The Times. "I'm just going to stick to doing no interviews."

Until The Times identified him by piecing together information from his postings over the past two years, MacDougald had taken pains to remain in the shadows — saying the credit for challenging CBS should remain with the blogosphere as a whole and not one individual.

"Freepers collectively possess more analytical horsepower than the entire news division at CBS," he wrote in an e-mail, using the slang term for users of the freerepublic site.

MacDougald is a lawyer in the Atlanta office of the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and is affiliated with two prominent conservative legal groups, the Federalist Society and the Southeastern Legal Foundation, where he serves on the legal advisory board and has been involved in several high-profile cases.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-091704buck...

[janx]

17. "or how he knew so much about the CBS documents so fast."

It is not surprising that he would not answer this question in particular.

[janx]

22. "analytical horsepower" ?

hahahaha!
Horse something else, maybe...

[partygirl]

12. we were really close.

did we come up with this name?

[LTR]

13. Nominated and kicked

:kick:

Now, will this shit just go away?

[janx]

14. Maybe "Buckhead" got a call from Creative Response Concepts...

http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story_free.cfm?ID=222586&site=3

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Well if this is the same guy, he's definitely

a right wing wacko Clinton hater. Seems he doesn't like Trent Lott much either? Lott is not far enough right for him.


Urban Legends

Harry MacDougald, November 26, 2002, 2:38 pm
Your riff on the Vichy Congress, and the large craters to be left by Administration's security policies suggest you pine for the halcyon days of yore when Comrade Clinton, a/k/a The Sink Emperor, was at the helm. As for Vichy Congresses, there were 2 democrat senators who publicly stated that Clinton's conduct warranted impeachment, and then, with all the martial vigor of a french cheese eating surrender monkey (but I repeat myself), voted to acquit. I speak of those paragons of senatorial courage, learning and non-viagra-induced rectitude, Robert "I'm saving the Constitution" Byrd, and Daniel Patrick Moyhnihan. Trent "Vacant" Lott, of Lott's Doctrine of Preemptive Capitulation, was only too happy to service all democrat demands at that time or any other. And, as for craters, there's one on Liberty Street in lower Manhattan that is the legacy of Clinton's feckless photo-op foreign policy, pursuant to which he (1) blew up a perfectly innocent aspirin factory in Khartoum in supposed retaliation for the East African bombings, because such a man of honor would never, ever stoop to wagging the dog while his plump and stained appliance waddled in and out of the grand jury, and (2) turned down the Sudan's offer of Osama on a platter, among many other psychotic eruptions during his presidency. The miserable wretch of a blade is a dullard indeed if he prefers the priapic perjurer as president to the current occupant, who actually puts duty above self, something Clinton cannot comprehend, much less accomplish himself. Double check those meds, dude!


http://www.macedition.com/scripts/showmessage.php?articleid=1177&postid=2728&threadid=2728

[Scorpious_Maximus]

19. NOMINATED - KICK

:kick:


Well done! The efforts to ID "buckhead" started right here on DU.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

21. Take Action Now Guys - We have the information. (nt)

[janx]

23. kick

[starroute]

25. Drafted amicus brief in Washington Post v. FreeRepublic.com

http://www.wcsr.com/FSL5CS/Lawyers/lawyers1450.asp


See http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/fahey1.html

"On Monday, February 11, the 9th District Circuit Court of Appeals, San Francisco, will convene to hear oral arguments in re: Washington Post and Los Angeles Times v. FreeRepublic.com LLC (a limited liability corporation), in what is perhaps the most important 1st amendment case of the new millennium. At issue is the propensity of FreeRepublic.com and its owner, Jim Robinson, to allow the posting of whole-length articles from news organizations nationwide – a policy the Post and Times, respectively, assert infringe upon the intellectual property rights of both the news corporations and of individual writers. At stake is a tort complaint of $1,000,000 lodged against Mr. Robinson, and the very future of FreeRepublic.com."


This case is the reason we here at DU have to be so careful to keep our postings within fair use. Mr. McDougald apparently didn't think the rights of authors needed to be respected.

[skooooo]

26. <sniff sniff>

That's so sad...lol.

[WLKjr]

27. That's awesome

say goodbye, whistle asses!

[starroute]

28. In on the challenge to campaign finance reform

(Warning - pdf file)
http://www.jamesmadisoncenter.org/McConellvsFEC/docket.8.6.2002.pdf

Senator Mitch McConnell was the plaintiff. The list of his lawyers includes:

Kenneth W Starr
FTS 879-5130
202-879-5200 FAX

KIRKLAND & ELLIS
655 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
AREA CODE (202)
L. Lynn Hogue
FTS 365-8500

Harry W. MacDougald
FTS 365-8500

Valle Simms Dutcher
FTS 365-8500
404-365-0017 FAX

SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION
3340 Peachtree Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30326
AREA CODE (404)
G. Hunter Bates
FTS 216-9265
502-473-8338 FAX

1215 Clifford Drive
Goshen, KY 40026
AREA CODE (502)

The Ken Starr connection is interesting, since it ties MacDougald into the same complex of people with deep right-wing connections that has been behind the SwiftBoat Liars and related anti-McCain and anti-Clinton operations in the past.

[starroute]

31. Scaife!!! I knew it!!!

As it says in the LA Times article (quoted in post #10), "MacDougald is ... affiliated with two prominent conservative legal groups, the Federalist Society and the Southeastern Legal Foundation, where he serves on the legal advisory board and has been involved in several high-profile cases." And, further, MacDougald "helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal."

Well, here's an article on that petition to disbar Clinton. It turns out that the Southeastern Legal Foundation is closely tied to both Richard Mellon Scaife and Ken Starr and was part of their anti-Clinton operations (AKA the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.)


http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2000/disbar.html

"No one was expecting balanced coverage from WorldNetDaily on the attempt to pull President Clinton’s law license. Clinton has declined to release the documents he has filed in the matter, all but inviting veteran Clinton-bashers like WorldNetDaily to pile on the hate without fear of being contradicted by the facts.

<snip>

"Let’s start with the Southeastern Legal Foundation, the group bringing the action. Bresnahan refers to the group as 'a public interest, non-profit law firm.' He neglects to mention that the group is a favorite receptacle of cash -- $150,000 in 1998 alone -- from billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, funder of many anti-Clinton efforts. Matthew Glavin, president of the foundation, says Scaife is among the group’s top 10 annual donors but refuses to release more specific numbers or exactly where Scaife is on the list.

<snip>

"Speaking of one-sided, Bresnahan can’t even be bothered to get a response from Clinton or his attorney, David Kendall, for any of these three stories. The only sources for the stories are Glavin, Hogue and, for some unknown reason, Georgia congressman Bob Barr. For the record, here’s what Kendall had to say in a statement released after the rebuttal was filed, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:

" 'The foundation isn’t interested in issues relating to Arkansas lawyers and legal services; it’s just interested in attacking the president in any way it can. ... Richard Scaife gives the foundation money, and Kenneth Starr helps raise money for it. (Starr spoke at a recent fund-raiser.) Releasing its papers to the public is just another part of the long-running partisan mudslinging campaign against the president.' "

[starroute]

33. Scaife and the Swift-Boaties

See GOPAgainstGW's long post #17 at this thread for the many links connecting Scaife, Starr, Regnery Publishing, and the Swift-Boat Liars.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=70318

And more on Scaife at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=109&topic_id=11179


This is big. Scaife was behind the effort to destroy Bill Clinton and it looks increasingly as though he and his usual evil minions are orchestrating the attacks on Kerry.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

29. Is this still before the courts? (nt)

[Name removed]

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[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. Ruh Roh. Looks like someone's gonna have to find a new username!

Does anyone know if Corsi is still posting under his initials at FR?

[Scorpious_Maximus]

35. ROFLMFAO!!! (nt)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

36. MacDougald drafted the Motion To Disbar Bill Clinton

His is the name at the bottom of the Motion before the Supreme Court. And Keith Olbermann also confirmed that he was the author of the brief.

http://southeasternlegal.org/ClintonAmicusBrief110701.html