Equal opportunity for felons in the Bush Administration
Worthwhile reading at
Kos, where a diarist links to an article by
Greg Palast about one of the loathsome characters tapped to replace
one of the fired US Attorneys. It was well known that Timothy Griffin, a Rove
appartchik, was a loathsome character, but Palast makes a good case that he's an
as yet unconvicted
felon:
Timothy Griffin, Karl Rove’s assistant, the President’s pick as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Griffin, according to BBC Television, was the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election.
Key voters on Griffin’s hit list: Black soldiers and homeless men and women. Nice guy, eh? Naughty or nice, however, is not the issue. Targeting voters where race is a factor is a felony crime under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Apparently Mr. Griffin, being none too swift, sent some emails to his fellow conspirators. Or at least he thought he did:
In October 2004, our investigations team at BBC Newsnight received a series of astonishing emails from Mr. Griffin, then Research Director for the Republican National Committee. He didn’t mean to send them to us. They were highly confidential memos meant only for RNC honchos.
However, Griffin made a wee mistake. Instead of sending the emails — potential evidence of a crime — to email addresses ending with the domain name “@GeorgeWBush.com” he sent them to “@GeorgeWBush.ORG.” A website run by prankster John Wooden who owns “GeorgeWBush.org.” When Wooden got the treasure trove of Rove-ian ravings, he sent them to us.
And we dug in, decoding, and mapping the voters on what Griffin called, “Caging” lists, spreadsheets with 70,000 names of voters marked for challenge. Overwhelmingly, these were Black and Hispanic voters from Democratic precincts.
I wonder that it never occurred to him that there might be something wrong when no one answered the emails. This might be a good opportunity for Congress to segue from one scandal to another. Bring Griffin in to testify about his appointment as a U.S. attorney, and have him explain those emails. Congress has stlll never adequately investigated election fraud in this country, and this would present a great opportunity to start such an investigation.
Timothy Griffin, Karl Rove’s assistant, the President’s pick as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Griffin, according to BBC Television, was the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election.
Key voters on Griffin’s hit list: Black soldiers and homeless men and women. Nice guy, eh? Naughty or nice, however, is not the issue. Targeting voters where race is a factor is a felony crime under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Apparently Mr. Griffin, being none too swift, sent some emails to his fellow conspirators. Or at least he thought he did:
In October 2004, our investigations team at BBC Newsnight received a series of astonishing emails from Mr. Griffin, then Research Director for the Republican National Committee. He didn’t mean to send them to us. They were highly confidential memos meant only for RNC honchos.
However, Griffin made a wee mistake. Instead of sending the emails — potential evidence of a crime — to email addresses ending with the domain name “@GeorgeWBush.com” he sent them to “@GeorgeWBush.ORG.” A website run by prankster John Wooden who owns “GeorgeWBush.org.” When Wooden got the treasure trove of Rove-ian ravings, he sent them to us.
And we dug in, decoding, and mapping the voters on what Griffin called, “Caging” lists, spreadsheets with 70,000 names of voters marked for challenge. Overwhelmingly, these were Black and Hispanic voters from Democratic precincts.
I wonder that it never occurred to him that there might be something wrong when no one answered the emails. This might be a good opportunity for Congress to segue from one scandal to another. Bring Griffin in to testify about his appointment as a U.S. attorney, and have him explain those emails. Congress has stlll never adequately investigated election fraud in this country, and this would present a great opportunity to start such an investigation.
Posted: Wednesday - March 07, 2007 at 07:52 PM
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