Justice Department Cover-Up of Republican Party Effort To Hinder Voter Turnout? More Dirty Tricks by the G.O.P

By Bill Cavala
A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento

Election Day 2002. The phone lines to the Democratic get-out-the-vote headquarters were jammed by Republican operatives who had hired an Idaho telemarketing firm to jam the lines. People who needed help in voting were prevented from obtaining that help.

The Republican Party’s Executive Director pled guilty to the phone harassment charges.

The Republican Party paid to settle a civil lawsuit filed by the State’s Democrats.

But the Justice Department, asked to investigate violations of Federal law, failed to do so in any meaningful way.

New Hampshire Rep. Paul Hodes, who pushed the inquiry, told the New York Times that a defense attorney (for the Republicans) told him that the Attorney General himself had to sign off on all actions in the case.

The same source reported that the only FBI agent assigned to the case was told that “she could not pursue leads to Washington”.

Perhaps because of the 22 phone calls the Democrats say took place between the White House Office of Political Affairs and New Hampshire Republican Officials late on election night and early into the next morning?

Assistant U.S. Attorneys forced to resign because they were insufficiently attentive in pursuing fraud allegations designed to restrict the election turnout of minorities.

Justice Department cover-ups of civil rights violations when those efforts to restrict turnout broke laws.

Now the possibility of direct involvement by the White House in an obstruction of justice?

Sound familiar?

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