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Subject: The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:27:32 -0400
From: Greg Palast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom
/Special to BRADBLOG/
*by Greg Palast*
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.
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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.
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.
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:
1. ‘Caging’ voters is a crime, a go-to-jail felony.
2. 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.
3. 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
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