[Sosfbay-discuss] Palast on "caging"

[JamBoi]

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.

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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