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To: BigKahuna

The only problem is they are not forged documents, they are just plain fakes.

If they cut and pasted a scan of Killian's signature (which looks like they did and it shrunk more via the repeated faxing and copying) then maybe you could go for identity theft.

But forgery can't be proven.


273 posted on 09/20/2004 6:31:14 PM PDT by Fledermaus (If Dan Rather was duped, he's incompetent. If he was in on it, he's proven media bias exist.)
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To: BigKahuna

I totally take that last comment back...I checked, it's forgery. I had relied upon a different definition as to the type of documents and discounted the signature part being a felony.

But the part of the definition that stated, "to perpetuate a fraud" rings true!


285 posted on 09/20/2004 6:34:42 PM PDT by Fledermaus (If Dan Rather was duped, he's incompetent. If he was in on it, he's proven media bias exist.)
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To: Fledermaus

Judge Napolitano today on Fox news said that if someone admitted to making the docs and if they were in Texas, they could be prosecuted under either Texas or US Statutes, 5 years in jail either way..forgery or fake is the same if it is presented or used as real. Thats why Burkett said I told CBS to authenticate them..


286 posted on 09/20/2004 6:34:52 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Fledermaus

The forgery lies in the criminal intent involved in creating an official letterhead from a recognized government entity (in this case, the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron). I believe one of the documents purported to order Mr. Bush to proceed as ordered for a flight physical. The trick lies in proving that the forgerer had a criminal intent in mind (so-called "mens rea").

That'd be up to a U.S. Attorney's office to attempt, but given the fact that a federal election was being tampered with, with the object of affecting the outcome of that election, one may be able to prove "mens rea".


287 posted on 09/20/2004 6:35:10 PM PDT by BigKahuna
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To: Fledermaus
You raise another interesting point: someone placed Killian's signature on those documents.

Identity theft?
298 posted on 09/20/2004 6:37:08 PM PDT by Chummy ("I Rather Know when I See BS." RepublicanAttackSquad.biz: "A vote 4 Kerry is a vote 4 Osama")
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