Democrats name GOP official in phone jamming

[Newsjock]

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=45614

By NANCY MEERSMAN
Union Leader Staff

CONCORD — Federal prosecutors yesterday called a halt just 20 minutes before Democrats were to question a Republican official under oath over the identity of a Bush-Cheney official allegedly implicated in an illegal phone-jamming operation.

Computerized telephone calls jammed five Democratic get-out-the-vote phone banks, plus a sixth run by Manchester firefighters, for about an hour and a half during the 2002 election.

The U.S. Justice Department will ask a judge as soon as today to stay depositions that Democrats had scheduled yesterday and today in their civil lawsuit against the GOP in connection with the scheme launched in the 2002 New Hampshire election.

Decrying last minute "interference" by federal officials, Democrats in court filings yesterday identified the alleged co-conspirator as Jim Tobin, director of the 2004 New England regional Bush-Cheney campaign.

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[teryang]

1. Someone once told me that Sununu

...was a computer genius.

[cybildisobedience]

3. true -- according to old stories

Sununu's influence was felt in a critical 1988 New Hampshire race.

[struggle4progress]

2. kick for political interference in the justice system

:kick:

[scoopmeister]

4. Here some more GOP tricks -- in Pennsylvania!

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/001061.html