Goodling/Sampson - Obstruction of Justice Evidence - Palast's "Keys To The Kingdom" E-mails

[kpete]

(More about Palast's E-mails that Monica & The Bush Admin is so afraid of at: http://www.gregpalast.com/index.php)

Goodling/Sampson Obstruction of Justice evidence?
Published May 23rd, 2007
Wednesday 23 May

BBC Television’s Newsnight has 500 “missing” Rove office emails including a series of self-incriminating notes which provide “the keys to the kingdom” behind the prosecutor firings.

In the opening to today’s testimony before Congress, Monica Goodling, former Department of Justice White House Liaison, testified that Deputy Attorney General Kyle Sampson lied. At issue was, says Goodling, Sampson’s denial “that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote ‘caging’ during the work on the President’s 2004 campaign.”

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The BBC reporter explained that ‘vote caging’ is a crime; Tim Griffin directed it; Karl Rove, Goodling and Sampson knew it, yet Rove demanded the appointment of Griffin as the US Attorney for Arkansas.



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In several emails obtained by subpoena by Congressional investigators, Goodling and Griffin complain about ‘that British reporter Palast’ (an American working with BBC London). In a February 5, 2006 email, Griffin gloats to Goodling that “no (US) national media” has picked up Palast’s discovery of the ‘caging’ operation.

more at:
http://www.gregpalast.com/journalist-with-bbc-has-rove-office-emails/#more-1738

[Celebration]

1. Why don't they ask her about this in the hearing???

Sheesh. Wbat could she say?

[LSK]

2. Greg Palast is on Randi Rhodes right now

[Tigress DEM]

3. Stupid question. What is vote "caging"? Ah found it on Brad Blog

http://www.bradblog.com

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Despite my and others' best efforts, 's public testimony was incomplete or inaccurate in a number of respects. As explained in more detail in my written remarks, I believe that the Deputy was not fully candid about his knowledge of White House involvement in the replacement decision, failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of the White House's interest in selecting Tim Griffin as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, inaccurately described the Department's internal assessment of the Parsky Commission, and failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote "caging" during his work on the President's 2004 campaign.

For the record, it's the practice of sending registered mail to minority voters, asking for a reply, and if one doesn't come back, the voter's right to vote is challenged either at the polls, or attempts are made to remove them from the voter rolls --- usually without their knowledge. Allegations have been made that this was done, based on race, in 2004, when registered letters were sent to the home addresses of African-Americans in Ohio, Florida and elsewhere. Most insidiously, letters were said to have been sent to U.S. troops who were away, serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, and thus did not (and could not) answer the registered mail. Their registrations were then reportedly challenged.

The RNC agreed to cease the practice in a 1986 consent decree in a court case brought after they had "tried to have 31,000 voters, most of them black, removed from the rolls in Louisiana when a party mailer was returned, " according to the Washington Post.

"The consent decrees that resulted prohibited the party from engaging in anti-fraud initiatives that target minorities or conduct mail campaigns to 'compile voter challenge lists.'"

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. See below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caging

[Tigress DEM]

5. Thanks. I kind of boycot wikipedia though.

Explanation:

They had locked Bush's section and had inaccurate information in Clinton's section.

They infer Clinton is responsible for things that weren't a problem until Bush took things beyond the law. I think it was the whole FISA & wiretapping issue. They mentioned that Clinton did wiretaps first, but neglect to mention he did it WITH warrants and then simply leave out Bush's much more major offense of obtaining information via blanket demands to phone companies via scape goat agencies.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. I am not a wiki frequenter either, but was pointed there earlier

for the exact same reason. :hi:

[TheMadMonk]

7. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

Wiki is too useful a resource to dismiss out of hand. It's also maddeningly inaccurate in places. Unfortunately for us here at DU we're more likely than most to run into some of those inaccuracies. Check the references and consider it good training for your BS detector.

Besides in this case I think your ire is misplaced. Odds are that the page was locked because it was being thrashed with "revisions" and "corrections".

If there WAS anything suspect about Wiki's decision. It's a fair bet that someone leaned rather heavily on Wiki to lock the page. That it's run by Bushbots I think unlikely in the extreme.