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Longer 'Missing' Rove Emails Revealing the Cagey Scheme to Steal 2008...
This Monica
revealed something hotter --- much hotter --- than a stained blue dress. In her
opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica
Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and
Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One....And the
Committee members didn't even know it.
Goodling
testified that Gonzales' Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, perjured himself, lying
to the committee in earlier testimony. The lie: Sampson denied Monica had told
him about Tim Griffin's "involvement in 'caging' voters" in 2004.
Huh?? Tim
Griffin? "Caging"???
The perplexed
committee members hadn't a clue --- and asked no substantive questions about it
thereafter. Karl Rove is still smiling. If the members had gotten the clue, and
asked the right questions, they would have found "the keys to the
kingdom," they thought they were looking for. They dangled right in front
of their perplexed faces.
The keys: the
missing emails --- and missing link --- that could send Griffin and his boss,
Rove, to the slammer for a long, long time.
Kingdom enough
for ya?
But what's
'caging' and why is it such a dreadful secret that lawyer Sampson put his
license to practice and his freedom on the line to cover Tim Griffin's
involvement in it? Because it's a felony. And a big one.
Here's how caging
worked, and along with Griffin's thoughtful emails themselves you'll understand
it all in no time.
The Bush-Cheney
operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked "Do not
forward" to voters' homes. Letters returned ("caged") were used
as evidence to block these voters' right to cast a ballot on grounds they were
registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students
on vacation and --- you got to love this --- American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of
them are Black voters.
Why weren't
these African-American voters home when the Republican letters arrived? The
homeless men were on park benches, the students were on vacation --- and the
soldiers were overseas. Go to Baghdad, lose your vote. Mission Accomplished.
How do I know?
I have the caging lists...
I have them
because they are attached to the emails Rove insists can't be found. I have the
emails. 500 of them --- sent to our team at BBC after the Rove-bots accidentally
sent them to a web domain owned by our friend John Wooden.
Here's what you
need to know --- and the Committee would have discovered, if only they'd asked:
'Caging' voters
is a crime, a go-to-jail felony.
Griffin wasn't "involved" in the caging, Ms. Goodling. Griffin, Rove's
right-hand man (right-hand claw), was directing the illegal purge and challenge
campaign. How do I know? It's in the email I got. Thanks. And it's posted below.
On December 7, 2006, the ragin', cagin' Griffin was named, on Rove's personal
demand, US Attorney for Arkansas. Perpetrator became prosecutor.
The committee was perplexed about Monica's panicked admission and accusations
about the caging list because the US press never covered it. That's because, as
Griffin wrote to Goodling in yet another email (dated February 6 of this year,
and also posted below), their caging operation only made the news on BBC London:
busted open, Griffin bitched, by that "British reporter," Greg Palast.
There's no
pride in this. Our BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news
everywhere on the planet --- except the USA --- only because America's news
networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup d'etat that
chose our President in 2004.
And now, not
bothering to understand the astonishing revelation in Goodling's confessional,
they are missing the real story behind the firing of the US attorneys. It's not
about removing prosecutors disloyal to Bush, it's about replacing those who
refused to aid the theft of the vote in 2004 with those prepared to burgle it
again in 2008.
Now that they
have the keys, let's see if they can put them in the right door. The clock is
ticking ladies and gents...
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Greg Palast is
the author of the New York Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse: from Baghdad to New
Orleans - Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone WILD. For more
info, or to hear Brad Friedman, Ed Asner and other troublemakers read from Armed
Madhouse, go to www.GregPalast.com