[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Let the FBI arrest Burkett and "extract" the "whole" truth from him.

[Old Sarge]

Short Answer: Yes.

[TommyDale]

Absolutely. The Justice Department should be all over this like a cheap suit. Where are they?

[SMARTY]

Why can't the RNC bring suit against the guy who passed the stuff off as authentic? Make Danny boy an accomplice. After all, Danny has been in the business all his life and must be held to a higher standard than younger and less experienced journalists.

[Robe]

Some here have suggested that since they came "from a private file" they are not official government documents.
However I think that as soon as you put " XXXth Fighter Group" as the letterhead you've crossed the line.

[MACVSOG68]

Title 18, US Code, Chapter 47 entitled Fraud and False Statements, includes the laws against fraudulent statements, using a computer for fraud, and wire transmission of fraudulent statements.

Would probably be difficult to get CBS if they acted in good faith, but certainly the perp who created them and transmitted them is ripe for an indictment.

In addition, there are Federal laws against illegally influencing or attempting to influence an election.

[AdamSelene235]

U.S. Code as of: 01/22/02
Section 494. Contractors' bonds, bids, and public records

Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any bond,
bid, proposal, contract, guarantee, security, official bond, public
record, affidavit, or other writing for the purpose of defrauding
the United States; or
Whoever utters or publishes as true or possesses with intent to
utter or publish as true, any such false, forged, altered, or
counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged,
altered, or counterfeited; or
Whoever transmits to, or presents at any office or to any officer
of the United States, any such false, forged, altered, or
counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged,
altered, or counterfeited -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten
years, or both.

[RightWhale]

Forging is a crime. Since the use to which the docs was put was not a military purpose the Federal gov't could be outside except for the Interstate Commerce clause that is used to justify so much Federal action.

[Digger]

Is it illegal to forge U.S. military documents?

Not if it comes from the Dems. Nothing will come from this. This "Two-Party Cartel" owned & run by the elites, will pass on it. Any bets? So I being a conservative have to access whether it is worth voting for one single pol in this cartel & corrupted government.

[GOPJ]

It's a crime when a conservative does it, it's not when a democrat does it. (According to CBS)