Posted on 09/22/2004 7:39:27 PM PDT by ubu
Dick Thornburgh was named to a a special panel appointed by to CBS to investigate the Rathergate story. At first blush, naming Thornburgh looks like an attempt to avoid partisanship. After all Thornburgh is a Republican who served as Attorney General under Reagan and Bush, as well as Governor of Pennsylvania.
But there is a curious wrinkle to the story; namely, the history of litigation between Thornburgh and senior Bush aide Karl Rove. In my post Karl Rove's Lawsuit Against Dick Thornburgh (Part I), I explained:
In my Agency and Partnership class today, I'm teaching Karl Rove & Co. v. Thornburgh, 39 F.3d 1273 (5th Cir.1994). Back when Richard Thornburgh ran for the U.S. Senate, and lost, Thornburgh left behind an unpaid bill of almost $170,000 owed to Karl Rove & Co. for services in conducting a direct mail campaign. It is clear that the authorized campaign committee—the "Thornburgh for Senate Committee"—had hired Rove & Co. and that it was liable. Unfortunately, the committee was broke. So Rove sued Thornburgh personally, seeking to hold Thornburg personally liable on the debt. The court first concluded that the committee was an unincorporated association. As a member of an unincorporated association, Thornburgh would be liable only if he assented to the contract. Because Thornburgh had not personally assented to the contract, the case turned on whether Thornburgh’s longtime aide Murray Dickman, in entering into a the contractual relationship with Rove & Co., acted as Thornburgh’s agent and within the scope of his authority. If so, Dickman's assent to the contract would be binding on Thornburgh. Held: Thornburgh is liable. Because Dickman is Thornburgh’s agent, Dickman’s assent to the contract constitutes assent by Thornbugh.
(Excerpt) Read more at professorbainbridge.com ...
(I searched several times and didn't find this thread already posted, hope I didn't miss it.)
lol
Didn't look hard enough: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223626/posts
That's just the basic "he's appointed."
Please look at the bold print in the excerpt from Bainbridge.com. CBS just tipped their hand, and my guess is NO one is retiring.
I dont trust them either hahahahaha
ARGHHHH Never mind. I see they are on it already.
Sigh, So much for running "title" searches.
Mods, kill it please.... I'm outta here before I do something else stupid.
The idea that CBS has any real interest is the facts of this major criminal case (forgery of federal documents) is laughable.
When is Ashcroft going to pay them a visit
Forgery is a crime
It doesn't matter anyway, as Rather will be immune from questioning from this panel. He's too impotent to take questions from people like these.
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This is BREAKING news. Did you knoe Rove sued Thornburgh for $170,000, that the RNC hired Star to help Thornburg, that Rove put him thru an embarrassing trial in Austin and won?
What a freakin scam!! Why even bother investigate the liberal RAT and CBS, we already know the outcome! What a joke!
The fix was in a thousand years before you were born. We need to keep riding shotgun on this people. Take a lesson from Buckhead and scrutinize everything this panel comes up with.
This is interesting, I was unaware of bad blood between Thornton and Rove
Next tim, try glancing in the Breaking News sidebar. 7th in the list as I post:
CBS Appoints Former US Attorney General and AP Chief Executive to Internal "Rathergate" Probe
Just like the trial of the Chicago Black Sox.
But oh, to be a fly on the wall as this panel asks the mega-arrogant Forger Dan some investigative questions.
you may want to have the mod add a note on the nature of the breaking news aspect about the thornburg /rove dispute
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