Josh says (he said it yesterday, but I’m just getting caught up with it today)…
Interesting. Allen Raymond, one of the guys at the center of the New Hampshire phone-jamming case, was sentenced today up in New Hampshire.
In court, his lawyer, John Durkin, said that when Raymond was executing the election tampering plot he “was acting at the behest of the state and federal Republican parties (italics included).”
The call came from the campaign committee run by Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN). Jim Tobin, who’s now appealing his conviction, was the guy who worked for Frist’s committee, the NRSC.
This investigation ain’t over.
For more info on that Republican Election Phone-Jamming case, see this previous coverage, as well as this report for details on the RNC itself footing the legal bills for Tobin and friends. For still more, search BRAD BLOG for the word “Tobin”.
"This investigation ain’t over."
You got that right, sounds like Senator Frist has been doing more than insider trading….thats the signal for the RNC to give up and elect a new majority leader!!!
Unbelievable….The RNC could be charged with racketeering, just for covering up this vote fraud/supression court case this long!!!!
Doug E.
Brad, have you been poking a sharp stick in the Diebold cave lately to see if anything squawks? Is "Dieb Throat" still with us?
It would be nice if we had some non partisan groups investigating these crimes. It’s like the fox guarding the hen-house.
The RNC should be sued under RICO.
Freedom of Speech does not protect neoCons from turning into neoConvicts when they conspire to violate the rights of the American Voting Public.
I remember Tobin. He was an Assclown of the Week ‘waaaay back when I started making it a weekly feature. Didn’t the GOP commit something like a half a million dollars toward his defense fund?
Speaking of my feature:
At last count, Mr. Rodriguez had received almost $40,000. Since I mentioned that in last night’s Assclowns of the Week, that number has no doubt gone up. Thank you, Congressman Cuellar, for your courageous sprint across party lines! Joe Lieberman and the ghosts of Ronald Reagan and Joe McCarthy are shedding tears of fatherly pride.
And speaking of which, new Assclowns of the Week: Super Bull Tuesday Edition is up. And, man oh man, it’s a good one! If this edition doesn’t get me on a No Fly watch list, nothing will.
On the spit this week:
Exxon-Mobil
George Bush (2, 9)
Henry Cuellar
The Ohio GOP
Congressman Bill Young
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom DeLay
Arlen Specter
The Capitol Police
The Democratic Senate Leadership.
All this and an expanded Dishonorable Mentions starring the US State Dept., Fred Phelps, new House Majority Leader John Boehner and free coffee refills!
So stop on over, leave a comment and turn off the coffee pot when you leave.
I remember Tobin. He was an Assclown of the Week ‘waaaay back when I started making it a weekly feature. Didn’t the GOP commit something like a half a million dollars toward his defense fund?
Speaking of my feature:
And speaking of which, new Assclowns of the Week: Super Bull Tuesday Edition is up. And, man oh man, it’s a good one! If this edition doesn’t get me on a No Fly watch list, nothing will.
On the spit this week:
Exxon-Mobil
George Bush (2, 9)
Henry Cuellar
The Ohio GOP
Congressman Bill Young
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom DeLay
Arlen Specter
The Capitol Police
The Democratic Senate Leadership.
All this and an expanded Dishonorable Mentions starring the US State Dept., Fred Phelps, new House Majority Leader John Boehner and free coffee refills!
So stop on over, leave a comment and turn off the coffee pot when you leave.
I don’t think this is TOO off-topic, since it concerns one of the other diseased tentacles of the neo-con monster (hmmm…I guess this is the "man-beast" Randi was going on about after the SOTU…but I digress..)
I’m sure most of you are aware of this. I think it would be a good idea to send a thank you to Schumer & Salazar, let them know people are paying attention…
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020306Z.shtml
Democrats Call for Special Prosecutor in Lobbying
Case
By Philip Shenon, The New York Times
Thursday 02 February 2006
‘Washington – Most Senate Democrats called on the Justice Department today to appoint a special prosecutor to take over the criminal investigation centered on the Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to conspiring to corrupt members of Congress and other public officials.
The 35 Democrats and Senator James Jeffords of Vermont, an independent, said in a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that an outside prosecutor was needed because of "Mr. Abramoff’s significant ties to Republican leadership in Congress and allegations of improper activity involving administration officials."
The Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said he signed the letter because "we need an independent investigation, not a whitewash led by Attorney General Gonzales, President Bush’s best friend." He added in a statement, "President Bush has worn out his credibility with the American people yet he continues to stonewall an investigation into his involvement with Jack Abramoff, asking him to trust him without explaining why."…
…The Justice Department had no immediate response to the senators’ request but in the past has rebuffed calls for a special prosecutor, saying that the department had demonstrated that it is pursuing the investigation aggressively. The call for a special prosecutor was first made last week by two of the Democratic senators, Charles E. Schumer of New York and Ken Salazar of Colorado.
The letter today noted that the chief investigator in the case, Noel Hillman, the head of the department’s Public Integrity division, was stepping down after the announcement last week that he was being nominated by the White House to a federal judgeship in New Jersey…’
Interesting that Hillman is head of the Public Integrity Division.
But if you only read one article today, maybe it should be this one. Another ‘tentacle’ & truly chilling. Personally, it’s a creepy coincidence that I found this at Truthout while I’m in the middle of reading about Rumsfeld’s history of taking over the intelligence community in "State of War" by James Risen.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/31781/
It’s Rumsfeld on the media, and also talks about censorship & the flap over those banned cartoons…
The Cartoonish State of the Media
By Rory O’Connor, AlterNet. Posted February 4, 2006.
‘…"How do we compete in this struggle in a way that can counter the ability of the enemy to lie, which we can’t do, [and] the ability of the enemy to not have a free media criticizing them? You don’t see much criticizing of them." -Rumsfeld
(who says this with a straight face & absolutely no sense of irony!)
‘…Rummy spoke just a few days after a Freedom of Information Act request by the redoubtable National Security Archive….compelled the release of the previously secret "Information Operations road map" he signed in 2003…
…Despite the release of the "road map," the real direction of the Pentagon’s information operations remains unclear. The document does, however, provide at least an inkling of the DOD’s Info War planning — and its global scale. It recommends, for example, that the United States should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum." In plain English, that means the U.S. military seeks the capability to knock out, among other things, every telephone and every networked computer on the planet…’
Keep connecting the dots, Brad. Great job as usual. These dots will connect: vote fraud on electronic machines->Feeney/Fla/Clint Curtis->Abramoff->9/11->PNAC. All of the vote fraud will soon be connected (Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, Arizona, New Mexico, Pennsylvania—Yes, Pennsylvania…Kerry won by 9%, but the final count was 3%…that’s a lot of popular votes stolen "here and there" from states Kerry won, giving a "supposed" popular majority).
What does everyone think of this huge article?
Surprise, surprise… The RNC connected to repressive partisan shenanigans in a small but significant conservative state? Who’d ever have guessed! Especially since even the people of New Hampshire can see when enough is enough…
This is just the latest in an endless stream of NeoCon atrocities. Every single day there’s another revelation, and every single day the mainstream media looks the other way.
This week Rumsfeld called Iran the world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism, ignoring the fact that the US "war on terror" has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people. That’s called GENOCIDE. Even if Bin Laden and alQaeda really were behind 9-11–which is looking less and less plausible as more and more NeoCon plots get revealed–they’re a distant second on the Biggest Terrorist chart. 9-11: 4,000 people. NeoCons: 100,000+ people. No contest. Rummy, look in the goddamn mirror.
For anyone who’s still on the fence about whether the NeoCons would stoop so low as to stage or facilitate 9-11, look no further than the most recent Downing Street Memo, which reveals Bush’s plot to repaint a US C-130 cargo plane in UN colors and fly it low over Iraq, hoping Saddam would shoot it down and thus give the US the basis for war.
Since our press has been beaten and cowed into complicity, we have but one choice. We must convince the Dems to mount an assault on the NeoCon power source–the stolen election machine. It’s our ONLY hope.
Click here to ask Barbara Boxer to lead the fight for fair elections!
Everyone please sign the petition urging Senator Boxer to get out in front on Election Fraud. Diebold is currently rolling across America just in time for ’06. Unless a prominent politician (NOT Kerry, ahem) speaks out and forces the mainstream media to address this issue, we’re all in big, big trouble. Boxer was the only senator to stand up against the seating of the Ohio electors in the stolen 2004 election. I believe she can be swayed. Urge everyone you know who cares about the fate of America to sign this petition.
And if anyone has any personal stories of how they either witnessed or were victim to election fraud, please e-mail me and I’ll see your letter gets to the Senator.
This petition is being FedExed to the Senator on 2/8/06, along with a copy of Mark Crispin Miller’s FOOLED AGAIN. So please forward this link to as many people as you can right now!
http://www.petitiononline.com/boxer123
And thanks to Brad and all Brad Bloggers for being great patriots.
Just another in the long line of crooks and thugs.
http://nitpicker.blogspot.com/
#10 I read your link, but didn’t go to the ‘links’, took me over an hour. So much information and more puzzle parts. Very interesting to see some more dots connected. Thanks, M4
#10
Thank you for this posting,I’ve saved this to my favorites,and intend to read it all.I have been skeptical about our government for many years, ever since Kennedy was asassinated. I have had distrust for anything we are told,and now that the MSM won’t even help us in our fight for truth about the Bush administration,I do believe they have been complicit all these years.It seems to me that things are becoming much more clear,we have been kept in the dark, in order to manipulate our support of these wars,to enable all corporations,media included,to attain immeasureable wealth at our expense!
#10…hUGE ARTICLE DEPRESSING AS HELL. MAKES ME THINK JUST GETTING ANOTHER PRESIDENT AIN’T GONNA’ FIX WHAT AILS US. OUR KARMA IS MESSED UP. WE’RE TALKIN’ ABOUT INVADING IRAN…PILING UP TROOPS IN SOUTH AMERICA…PATRICK FITZGERALD IS TAKIN’ HIS SWEET TIME. I’M THINKIN’ SOMEBODY MIGHT TRY AND STOP THE MADNESS WHILE THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR DELIBERATES.
Considering all that’s occurred as of late (actually, as of the last 100 or so years, but I won’t be so whiney), I am truly amazed at anyone anywhere, of any denomination, creed, color, or station who questions–and subsequently despises, as is inevitable–this administration, sees all the trouble caused, and still decides to vote Republican or Democrat.
It becomes easier and easier by the day to make out the underlying framework of the bipolar autocracy that has, as its crowning achievement for the 20th century, done nothing but bog our nation down, convolute issues of true concern, arrogantly tell the public what is (*ahem*) "best" for us–and in ?? how many cases, even force said prescriptions on us by law, create COUNTLESS untold problems, heartaches, and maladies, and put our nose into business/conflicts (which says nothing of the dozens, if not hundreds, of conflicts actually CAUSED BY government-ordered/sanctioned agents–most on purpose(!) ) in every possible region around the world, causing a slowly-simmering/building undercurrent of resentment, hatred, vengefulness, violent anger with the potential to cause who-knows-what-level/amount of terrorist actions against us in retalliation. The whole thing has been an idealistic, power-hungry socio-political orgy for the demented and criminally insane/negligent conducted entirely without protection or regards to any present or potential consequences, or indeed anything beyond the realm of their tightly-shut eyelids. For the record, I doubt we’ve seen a fraction of all that will be brought against us, in terms of sentiment and actual firepower, as we continue to meddle and the undercurrent begins to build and roll over into a big fucking wave on the surface.
Any democrat in office right now who says he opposes government interference in our everyday lives and the lives of foreign citizens is a fucking liar. Same with all republicans in office–except for two, of whom I’m aware (and they are both libertarians in actual practice, but ran under the republican banner either to be [real, actual] conservative, but still reach a mainstream public, or because–god forbid–they still [actaully] followed [no, seriously] the principles on which the party and its reputation were originally built). Every single day, as a matter of casual routine, these people pass unconstitutional laws, weigh benefits and well-being of citizenry against bottom lines and net worth, extract (extort) money from the citizenry to pay for their own fucking-over, and do a horribly irresponsible, ineffectual job of all of this and much more. They spend million$ and million$ in YOUR money on PR and marketing to try and find ways to sell you your own misery and make it sound good/appealing for you. The simple fact that they even NEED to hire such jackals to even sound somewhat non-evil tells me that they are NOT, under any circumstances, EVER acting with any of the public’s interest in mind…except so far as absolutely necessary to fill in the gaps the PR left behind and win more votes. PERIOD.
Pick an administration–either one of the parties, or their candidates over the last century. They both got us into foreign wars, enacted legislation that was blatantly, horribly repressive while claiming America to be a land of liberty and freedom, and did EVERYTHING in their power (including legislation, ballot-access-statutes, requirements and stipulations, etc. etc. etc. etc.) to keep any voice other than their own out of public view. It’s disgusting. No matter who voices, discovers, instigates an issue or problem, the other party just picks it up and argues on autopilot, manufacturing public outcry over things that were never even important to the public to begin with, and carrying on a zombie-like two-sided mantra that at times is on the level of an argument between 1st graders–as if there are only two possible solutions to everything that could come up!
Both parties are evil to the core, unconstitutional in almost every action and spirit, and will continue to act indefinitely in the interests by which they currently form their platforms. You can elect a new president, senate, house, judge, or whomever you want–of EITHER party–and I guarantee that sooner or later, you will be in figurative, if not literal, chains. they both increase the size of, power of, and frequency of daily personal encounters with, the government–and no matter which lane you’re in or how fast you’re going, that road still leads to the same totalitarian destination. No matter how you reason it or justify it to yourself.
No sympathy for the RNC. Prosecute them and put them in prison.
They are the majority party leading us down the path of destruction, and they must be held accountable.
They cannot govern competently, they can only campaign well because our American psyche has been distorted and corrupted til there is a tendency to blame the minority party for the wrongs of the majority party.
We have become fundamentally unjust, and we must change course in November or else we will suffer like no empire has suffered before.
Fitzgerald "taking his time" means building an airtight case against these slimy creatures. It could take years to unravel the interlocking criminal networks and Fitzgerald is known for his exacting cases and resultant successes. This criminal Mafia, that has seized our government, was carefully installed over many years, so don’t expect all the participants to be ferreted out by prematurely going to trial.
I am patient as long as I see progress in that direction.
Correct, don’t anyone rush the prosecutors. They are on our side and have to make sure it is airtight and happen to be doing just that.
Just back them up…..most of us are independents here, so provide whatever support you can. And spread the word.
Doug
I just signed your Boxer petition, Jim (#12). I hope others do the same.
FYI–
Senate judiciary committee hearings on the NSA spy program are scheduled to begin tomorrow.
Starting at 9:30 a.m. ET on CSPAN.
"The RNC should be sued under RICO"
Same with the liberal tire slashers and the voter registrars paid in crack by the NAACP?
The evidence keeps rolling in that the Pubs would indeed steal an election, but still those who think they might have or did are dismissed as crackpots.
It’s gotta be nice having the media in your back pocket.
Gay Conservative
Shows you dont have shit to defend eh? But sure, sue them all. Just take out the neocons…
Whats that? Oh the neocon foreigners like lieberman and chertoff really know *what* they are doing….they know it so well they have pissed off all of america.
Doug E