This is the follow-on installment to In the past few days many people have demanded to know whether criminal charges could be brought in connection with the Rathergate forgeries. That isn’t an easy question to answer. Obviously, not every false statement is prosecutable. In fact, few are, especially false statements about candidates for political office made in the heat of a campaign (the First Amendment raises its own barriers--not wholly insurmountable). But there is something about the Rathergate forgeries that gives rise to an almost instinctive sense that these false statements go well beyond the pale and into the territory...