the memos were produced by the Bush campaign to discredit the media's reporting on Bush's National Guard service. The chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, suggested that the memos might have originated with long-time Bush strategist Karl Rove. McAuliffe told reporters on September 10, "I can tell you that nobody at the Democratic National Committee or groups associated with us were involved in any way with these documents", he said. "I'm just saying that I would ask Karl Rove the same question." via Lexis/Nexis. McAuliffe later pointed out that Rove and another Republican operative, Ralph Reed, had "a known history of dirty tricks", and he asked whether Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie would rule out any involvement by GOP consultant Roger Stone. At a community forum in Utica, New York in 2005, U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) pointed out that the controversy served Rove's objectives: "Once they did that, then it undermined everything else about Bush's draft dodging. ... That had the effect of taking the whole issue away." After being criticized, Hinchey responded, "I didn't allege I had any facts. I said this is what I believe and take it for what it's worth." Rove and Stone have denied any involvement. In a 2008 interview in The New Yorker, Stone said "It was nuts to think I had anything to do with those documents ... [t]hose papers were potentially devastating to George Bush. You couldn't put them out there assuming that they would be discredited. You couldn't have assumed that this would rebound to Bush's benefit. I believe in bank shots, but that one was too big a risk." See also George W. Bush military service controversy Questioned document examination Footnotes External links Killian documents PDF files These are the Killian documents supplied to CBS Reports by Bill Burkett: Memorandum, May 4, 1972 (CBS News) Memo to File, May 19, 1972 (CBS News) Memorandum For Record, August 1, 1972 (CBS News) Memo to File, August 18, 1973 (CBS News) USA Today Killian documents (USA Today, six memos in one.pdf file) Bush documents from the TexANG archives Page 31 is a November 3, 1970, memo from the office of Lt Col Killian on promotion of Lt Bush: Bush enlistment documents (USA Today) 60 Minutes II, September 8 transcript Transcript of CBS segment Dan Rather interviews Marion Carr Knox - September 15, 2004 YouTube Statements of the CBS