A CBS Criminal Conspiracy?

AIM.org ^ | 10-5-04 | Cliff Kincaid

[FlyLow]

Commenting on Rathergate, columnist Pat Buchanan says that, "CBS appears to have been complicit in a criminal conspiracy to use forged U.S. government documents to bring down a president. CBS must have suspected it was using counterfeit documents. An investigation must be conducted into who tried to affect an election using forgeries of federal documents."

Those are tough words, but the fact is that federal law prohibits the forging of public records for the purpose of defrauding the U.S. Federal law also prohibits conspiracy to defraud the United States. In a Supreme Court case, Hammerschmidt v. United States, Chief Justice Taft defined "defraud" as follows: "To conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to cheat the Government out of property or money, but it also means to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest." This means, the Justice said, that it "is not necessary that the Government shall be subjected to property or pecuniary loss by the fraud, but only that its legitimate official action and purpose shall be defeated by misrepresentation" or fraud.

The broadcasting of forged documents to affect a presidential campaign and election clearly falls in the parameters of "conspiracy to defraud." In terms of state law, the Texas Penal Code explicitly outlaws the use of forged government or public documents.

[blindmoron]

Does anyone know if the story below is true? If so, why is not on Drudge?

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[bert]

Well well.......

Perhaps Pat isn't such a bad guy afterall.

[The Mayor]

Bump!

[alloysteel]

"A CBS criminal conspiracy?"

Of course there is, and it is still ongoing. Will they ever be called to account for it before the law? Probably not, but that does not mean there won't be consequences, spilling over into every aspect of the CBS conglomerate and corporate base.

WorldCom and Enron ran cleaner operations.

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