Fired US Attorney Details GOP Effort to "Cage" Votes in New Mexico

[kpete]

March 17, 2008 at 01:16:49

Fired US Attorney Details GOP Effort to "Cage" Votes in New Mexico in 2004

by Jason Leopold


In a chapter titled "Caged," Iglesias recounts how the Department of Justice aggressively pushed him and other US attorneys to prosecute voter fraud cases, an issue the former US attorney says the DOJ became unusually obsessed with.

"The e-mail imperatives came again in 2004 and 2006, by which time I had learned that far from being standard operating procedure for the Justice Department, the emphasis on voter irregularities was unique to the Bush administration," Iglesias says.

Iglesias says that Republican officials in his state were far less interested in election reforms and more intent on suppressing votes.

"But there was a more sinister reading to such urgent calls for reform, not to mention the Justice Department's strident insistence on harvesting a bumper crop of voter fraud prosecutions. That implication is summed up in a single word: "caging."

"Not only did the administration stoop to such seamy expedients to press its agenda in 2004," Iglesias wrote. "It had the full might and authority of the federal government and its prosecutorial powers to accomplish its ends."

more at:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_jason_le_080317_fired_us_attorney_de.htm

[mod mom]

1. When are they going to send in the Sargeant of Arms? and How are we going to get

around blanketed pardons?

[hootinholler]

2. Impeachment is the way around pardons. n/t

[NM Independent]

3. We miss you David

Thank you for speaking out instead of dropping into the shadows like Wilson, Domenici, and Bush would love you to do.

This guy is a fracking hero to me, and many here in NM.