Brother Dan-An open letter to Dan Rather

My Brother, your the second DeMolay brother in public life i have ever been harsh with. I do so because in such areas of honor and profit i expect better from a Brother.

But now let me offer you this Aid;

Stop talking. The more you talk about the story, the worse it gets for you. You have made statements that they attack the memo's because they cannot attack what is in them. I am floored by this complete misdirection on your part.

Information is true even if the memo is false---> Does not compute

The fact that the information in the Memo is true, is impossible to prove to anyone's reasonable satisfaction because this memo is clearly false

Memo is false, thus the information in the memo is false---> this is true. Memo's exist to provide information, and if they are not true then there is no true information.

Now, is it possible Bush got special help getting into the Guard?

Certainly, but the fact Ben Barnes has changed this story -and attacked many other prominent Texas political families of both parties- Makes his allegation less then credible.

The fact he has a home near one of Kerry's, the fact he is a major fundraiser for kerry a fact you PERSONALLY know makes these allegations highly suspect.

are they true? we won't know unless we get more credible information.

now, several Guard historians have said that their were vacancies in the Texas AirGuard... if thats the case this is a direct rebutal on the Barnes story and should have been factored into the news.

His daughter says his story is bogus and part of a book he is writing, this is relevent and should have made it into the news story.

Did Bush miss a physical: Ummm no one is disputing this fact that *I* know of. I may be wrong and the Bush team may be disputing it.

Did his commanding officer write a CYA memo?: The answer appears to be No. No mater their partisan Biases i believe his Secretary, and his family on this one. You interviewed his family, and then left their information on the cutting room floor Along with the information of others who could cooberate their story. and furthermore, this kind of memo is explosive in nature, and anyone who is career military knows that you don't allow this memo to ever survive you in your physical life.

Did His commanding officer have the sentiments recorded in the Memo: Some sources say yes, some say no. Thus this *MIGHT* be a legitimate reporting venue

Did they have the Selectric typewriter at the time that could have done this: It seems unlikely, but not impossible... just as Nixon's secretary could have accidentally erased those tapes but it wasn't bloody likely.

I am reading in some sources that you were working this story for 5 years, i hope this isn't true because this means Newsweek's claim of who your sources is, is probably dead on true. In addition to a partisan political record, in addition to his mental health issues and very likely "grudge" motive we have a bigger aspect to this story.

He has in at least one Blog interview ( i'll get the link later for anyone reading this) been unable to get anyone else who saw this happening.

Brother, I try to hope your motives were worthy here... but it is very hard for me to do so.

If some how this story ends up in the Hands of Dan Rather, i'd like to ask him to think on one thing.

Would Frank Land think he did his best job?
Would Frank Land be proud of what he was doing?