William Safire: Duping of CBS journalists was more than a 'dirty trick' (it's a crime)

Star Tribune/NY Times ^ | Sept. 24, 2004 | William Safire

[Bullish]

No different than the guy who tries to pass off a phony sawbuck, either.

Forgery's illegal for a good reason.

[Palladin]

Rather and CBS were the dupers, not the dupees.

[WolveMarine]

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1343.html

[longtermmemmory]

i agree bump

[Savage Beast]

What if the purpose of executing such scheme is to subvert the United States Presidential Election?

[sevry]

Christopher Hitchens on Scarborough Country made an excellent point tonight with respect to the use of the word forgery when characterizing the memos.

Forgery is the proper term. Like a forged check, it's not necessarily a copy of something that previously existed. But it is passed off as something that it is not, including the phony signature.

[Zon]

Yes. Go with this. The best defense is to go on the offense.

That was no mere "dirty trick"; it could be a violation of the U.S. criminal code. If the artifice had not been revealed by sharp-eyed bloggers, a national election could have been swung by a blatant falsehood.

 

NEWS FLASH !!

CBS News and CBS 60 Minutes II suffer irreparable, 
self-inflicted stupidity...

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Using forged documents to influence the outcome of the 2004 Presidential election .That was the criminals' intent. Rather than report on the crime in progress, CBS and 60 Minutes II chose to embrace  the criminals' intent.

How could one of the premiere news agencies have blundered so badly?

 A crime occurs right under their noses and incorporates them into a master plan/crime yet CBS and 60 Minutes II  management was supposedly oblivious despite how blatantly obvious the fraud is.

[John Lenin]

bttt

[etcetera]

No official investigation will take place, not by the feds and not by the state of Texas. Someone has to file a complaint and the only person with legal standing to do that is Pres. Bush. And I don't think he will, IMHO.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post. Domestic enemies are much harder to defeat than foreign enemies.

[Alia]

American Spectator, today, has an excellent discussion on this "experts" versus... freepers, for example. :)

[Alia]

So, whether or not the signature was forged or "cut'n'paste" would be entire separate trial day's discourse?

[John Robertson]

Right. But maybe two days.