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US Attorney Resigns Following Conyers’ Request for BBC Documents
by Greg Palast
June 1, 2007
Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned
Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television
‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the
network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement in ‘caging voters.’
Greg Palast, reporting for BBC Newsnight, obtained a series of
confidential emails from the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. In these
emails, Griffin, then the GOP Deputy Communications Director,
transmitted so-called ‘caging lists’ of voters to state party leaders.
Experts have concluded the caging lists were designed for a mass
challenge of voters’ right to cast ballots. The caging lists were
heavily weighted with minority voters including homeless
individuals, students and soldiers sent overseas.
Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating
the firing of US Attorneys, met Thursday evening in New York with
Palast. After reviewing key documents, Conyers stated that, despite
Griffin’s resignation, “We’re not through with him by any means.”
Conyers indicated to the BBC that he thought it unlikely that
Griffin could carry out this massive ‘caging’ operation without the
knowledge of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rove.
Griffin has not responded to requests by BBC to explain this
'caging' operation. However, in emails subpoenaed by Conyers'
committee, Griffin complains to Monica Goodling, an assistant to
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, about the BBC reporter's
reproduction of caging lists in Palast's book, "Armed Madhouse."
In the email dated February 5 of this year, Griffin stated that the
purpose of 'caging' was to identify "fraudulent" voters. This
contradicts one explanation of the Bush campaign to BBC that the
lists were of potential donors and not in any way created to
challenge voters.
Griffin confidentially wrote: "The real story is this: There were
thousands of reported illegal/fake voter registrations around the
country, so some of the Republican State Parties mailed letters
welcoming new voters to the newly registered voters. … The
Republican State Parties ultimately wanted to show that thousands
of fraudulent registrations had been completed."
Last Wednesday, Goodling testified under a grant of immunity before
the House Judiciary Committee that Gonzales' Deputy Paul McNulty,
"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."
Goodling's testimony prompted Conyers' request to the BBC for the
Griffin emails.
Last night Palast showed Conyers a Griffin email from August 2004
indicating that Griffin not only knew of 'caging,' but directed the
operation.
And check out this story from Slate: Raging Caging - What the heck
is vote caging, and why should we care? Here: http://
www.slate.com/id/2167284/pagenum/all/#page_start
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 information, go to
www.GregPalast.com
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