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Rep. Cox Requests House Rathergate Probe
NewsMax ^ | Sept 14

Posted on 09/14/2004 7:46:35 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary

A senior House Republican has formally requested a congressional investigation into an apparent criminal conspiracy to rig the 2004 presidential election by forging records from President Bush's National Guard service and having them reported by CBS News.

In a letter Tuesday night to Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the Subcommittee of Telecommunications and the Internet, Rep Christopher Cox, R-Calif., called for a probe into what he described as "the continued use by CBS News of apparently forged documents concerning the service record of President George W. Bush intended to unfairly damage his reputation and influence the outcome of the 2004 presidential election."


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; chriscox; danrather; forgery; fraud; killian; probe; rather; rathergate; ratherinteresting; seebsnews
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To: rudypoot

You are very welcome!


201 posted on 09/15/2004 7:37:22 AM PDT by MistyCA
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To: Thanatos

You are welcome! :)


202 posted on 09/15/2004 7:38:02 AM PDT by MistyCA
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To: MayflowerMadam
It is a crime to tamper with a federal election. Lets hope our representatives pursue this and bring pressure to bear on Rather and CBS. I also hope they can trace the (alleged) forgeries to their source.

You can expect the Dems to stonewall this.

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203 posted on 09/15/2004 7:56:29 AM PDT by Brownie74
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To: bvw

And its also time to defund NPR.


204 posted on 09/15/2004 7:58:20 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: spokeshave

Re your #33;

" ...complete with the guy brought back from jail in Brazil or somewhere who has the goods on Hillery....."

What guy? Never heard of him.

You mean he's STILL ALIVE??!!

That would be amazing!


205 posted on 09/15/2004 8:01:43 AM PDT by Uncle Jaque (Vigilance!)
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To: Nathan Zachary

Give that man a medal.


206 posted on 09/15/2004 8:04:51 AM PDT by Havoc (.)
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To: MistyCA; Eva

Misty, thanks for the ping.

Eva, I hadn't realized that CBS is moderating the presidential debate on October 13th, do we know who the moderator is to be? Would RatRather have the gall? Nevermind, I imagine he would.


207 posted on 09/15/2004 8:29:02 AM PDT by Amore (Go, Swifties, go!)
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To: Amore

Bob Scheiffer is supposed to be the moderator. This is an important issue. I don't know how to get it across that we don't want to see CBS honored and respected in this way. I have been thinking about calling the local GOP headquarters, but I don't know what good that would do.


208 posted on 09/15/2004 8:32:33 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Nathan Zachary; All
Given the shortness of time between now and the election which the apparent fraud is meant to influence, and the even shorter time before Congress is scheduled to adjourn...

Exactly. Congress simply isn't capable of moving fast enough to deal with something like this. And the courts won't issue an injunction or anything, because they proved long ago that they don't care if the media commit fraud, libel, or virtually any other crime.

209 posted on 09/15/2004 8:40:25 AM PDT by Wolfstar (Silence in the face of atrocity is complicity. Vote GWB 11/2/04 for 9/11/01 & the Russian kids.)
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To: MistyCA

Please take me off your ping list. I never signed up for it.


210 posted on 09/15/2004 8:40:40 AM PDT by snarkpup
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To: Torie

but it WOULD be nice to find out who's behind it all. Aren't you curious about that?


211 posted on 09/15/2004 8:44:13 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD is STILL in control, even if Bush loses in 2004!)
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To: Peach

This is great news! I wrote up a vanity thread in 2000 election on here stating the reasons why Rep Chris Cox should be chosen as the VP, and I have not changed my mind that he should run for higher office.


212 posted on 09/15/2004 8:48:14 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Oklahoma is Reagan Country and now Bush Country -- Kerry is DOOMED!)
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To: Torie
Just what we don't need.

This is a tactical error -- if this foolish notion gets enough traction to get into the news cycle, the focus of the story will become "Republicans Launch Partisan Investigation" instead of "Bush Smeared With Bogus Documents".

When the opposition is self-destructing, don't interfere.

213 posted on 09/15/2004 9:35:23 AM PDT by steve-b (Panties & Leashes Would Look Good On Spammers)
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To: Sal
forgery and fraud are not politcal speech. They are crimes.

In the absence of of direct and immediate damage (e.g. if I forged a check and use it to buy something, somebody ends up getting cheated), it's unlikely that this sort of forgery and fraud rises to the level of a prosecutable offense.

And that's the way it should be -- government involvement should always be the last resort.

214 posted on 09/15/2004 9:45:31 AM PDT by steve-b (Panties & Leashes Would Look Good On Spammers)
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To: TonyRo76
I hope this one is swift, efficient and deadly forceful in taking down the sleazy frauds in the MSM news cartel.

That's another reason why this is a bad idea. If Representative Cox does start a Congressional investigation that is in fact swift, efficient, and forceful against the proper targets, he ought to put a clause in his will leaving his body to the Smithsonian Institution so that he can be displayed as a unique specimen.

215 posted on 09/15/2004 9:47:13 AM PDT by steve-b (Panties & Leashes Would Look Good On Spammers)
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To: Eva
but first ban CBS from moderating the presidential debate on October 13th

I second Buckhead's nomination as moderator!

216 posted on 09/15/2004 9:50:23 AM PDT by talleyman (Dan Rather is the love child of Josef Stalin & Matta Hari and James Carville is a space alien - E.T.)
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To: Nathan Zachary

Thank you Representative Cox. Throw another log on the fire and turn the spit v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.


218 posted on 09/15/2004 10:07:20 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (What America really needs to know about the Candidates is: what age each mastered potty training.)
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To: AMDG&BVMH

Someone is posting it around various threads on FR, as well as the tentacles they call entertainment entities.


219 posted on 09/15/2004 11:04:06 AM PDT by mabelkitty (Watch for a CBS employee in a trench coat going by DeepWord.....)
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To: Nathan Zachary
Great Grandstanding and I agree. However, it ain't going to happen. The Wh already said they will let the industry investigate themselves. In essence, they will not use the power of Congress, the FBI etc to investigate the matter - particularly as there is soooo much positive mileage as it is.
220 posted on 09/15/2004 11:59:37 AM PDT by Henchman (Vote Communist - elect Kerry!)
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