I agree completely. Is Travis county run by the Democrats? If so, expect coverups rather than genuine investigations, and certainly, no prosecutions.
The DA in Travis County is Ronnie Earle, as partisan a Democrat as you'll ever hope to see. Remember the sham trial they tried on Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison? Guess who prosecuted that case?
Not a chance the DA of Travis County would press charges. Now, the DA of Taylor County, that might be a different story.
There are some threads that discuss the possibilities of criminal prosecution. Quite a few possible charges have been named. Forgery, forging government documents, fraud, violation of election law, wire fraud, misuse of government seal (as in, the letter head might be a "seal"), etc.
For RICO to kick in, there has to be a crime first. It is not illegal to forge history, the order to GWB is inoperative. If CBS didn't pay for the forgeries (on the pretext they were genuine), CBS was not defrauded. In order to find wire fraud, you first have to find fraud. The statutes that relate to misuse of government seals relate only to the emblem, not to typed text of any kind.
The only penalty for journalistic fraud is self-policing by the so-called journalism profession.
I read quite a few thread here, and if somebody pipes up with a statute or case law that appears to apply to this fact pattern, I'd like to read it.
Ronnie Earle runs the prosecutor's office in Travis County. And he's a vicious nutcase, pretty much like the rest of the white liberal Democrats in Texas (we've penned them all in Travis County).
If he takes any action, Ronnie baby is more likely to seek an indictment of Karl Rove -- for having made Burkett do it.
On another thread tonight, I posted the information regarding the mole that was caught mailing the video and campaign material to one of Gore's campaign aides back in 2000. She was previously a precinct chairwoman in Travis County. Here's a link to what I wrote:
How about engaging in an ongoing criminal conspiracy?
"I think a serious crime was committed in Travis County, Texas."
To add insult to injury...David Van Os, Burkett's former attorney (and I assume STILL is) is running for a place on the Texas Supreme Court!
http://www.vanosforsupremecourt.com/
Among some of the "topics" on his campaign website:
Karl Rove's Master Plan Started With the Texas Courts
Letter from Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Bill Burkett
Former Client of David Van Os
Gov. Howard Dean and Democracy for America Endorses
David Van Os for Texas Supreme Court
Pat Caddell made the point that Texas has its own strict statute against falsifying government documents. He seemed to think this would be a big problem for the Dems here.