BradBlog/Palast: The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom

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Palast Exclusive: The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom
And The No Longer 'Missing' Rove Emails Revealing the Cagey Scheme to Steal 2008...
*** Special to The BRAD BLOG 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.

So here's the skinny, and the email you were looking for...

FULL EXCLUSIVE:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4594



Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4594

[BrotherBuzz]

1. Greg says he has 500 e-mail, yet I think I saw fewer the a hundred posted at geoegewbush.org....

Are we to assume Greg Palast's collection contains the really damning hot potatoes?

[pschoeb]

9. I think he counts each address the e-mail was sent to as

a separate email, Because he says that Griffin sent out dozens of e-mails with Caging info, yet their are only two e-mails with caging spreadsheets, but if you count each address sent, it equals 15, or the dozens Palast states

[Kikosexy2]

32. Maybe we...

need to help Congress here and write/call them that Monica's slip of the tongue on "caging" votes is a crime of high degrees and those involved must pay!!!...Do it now!!....

[rodeodance]

35. some are Blank-whole pages are blank

[pnwmom]

2. Thank you, once again. K & R.

[radfringe]

3. caging list

according to Thom Hartman (on his show Wed. 5/23) - republics were barred from using caging lists over 20 years ago. and then there's

The 1965 law makes it a felony crime to challenge voters when race is a factor in the targeting. African-American voters comprised the bulk of the 70,000 voters 'caged' in a single state, Florida. ( http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14351&Itemid=1 )

Goodling admitted the caging list tactic was used.


FYI: Transcript Text of Former Justice Dept. Aide’s Testimony on Attorney Firings
Published: May 24, 2007 - NY TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/us/24mfulltext.html

[Maraya1969]

33. But she did not say he actually WAS involved in cagging. Here is her testimoney

First, I wish to set the record straight regarding what I understood to be the deputy attorney general's allegation to Senator Schumer that I withheld information prior to his public and private testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The allegation is false. I did not withhold information from the deputy. To the contrary, I worked diligently to compile and provide the deputy with dozens of pages of statistics and other information that I thought he was likely to need based on the questions that were being asked at that time. Despite my and others' best effort, the deputy's public testimony was incomplete or inaccurate in a number of respects.

As explained in more detail in my written remarks, I believe the deputy was not fully candid about his knowledge of White House involvement in the replacement decision, failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of the White House's interest in selecting Tim Griffin as the interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Arkansas, inaccurately described the department's internal assessment of the Parsky Commission and failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote caging during his work on the president's 2004 campaign.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/us/24mfulltext.html?pagewanted=4&_r=1

[starroute]

43. Details of the consent decree against the RNC here (pdf)

http://www.votelaw.com/blog/blogdocs/GOP_Ballot_Security_Programs.pdf

The Republicans’ perceived problems arising from too heavy a reliance on volunteers began to be addressed with a different strategy in the mid-1980s. From Operation Eagle Eye onward, the major Republican ballot security programs had borne the imprimatur of the party high command, overseen by the RNC and implemented at the grassroots by local organizations and commercial political operatives. In the mid-1980s, the situation began to change. GOP ballot-security skulduggery in the city of Newark and environs had led to a consent decree in 1982 presided over by a federal judge in New Jersey, according to which the RNC promised to forego minority vote suppression.19 In 1985, several months before the RNC was hauled back before the same judge as a result of illegal purging efforts in a 1986 Louisiana senatorial campaign and agreed to submit all future ballot security programs it oversaw to the court for its inspection, a new organization was created—the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA).

[blondie58]

4. thank you for what you do

now if we could only get Congress to wake up and take action! Don't any of them read?- surely they know that the real news isn't covered on CNN.

[pnwmom]

5. Come on, DU'ers! Can't we get enough recommends

to put this on the Greatest Page?

[solara]

6. Congresswoman, Subcommittee Chair Linda Sanchez (D-CA) -did- ask the question

though it seemed rather innocuous at the time.. No doubt the House Judiciary Committee would be most interested in hearing Griffin's "very good explanation"........


from the Text of former Justice Dept. Aide, Monica Goodlng's, Testimony

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/us/24mfulltext.html?p...

<snip>

(Page 9 of 32)

MS. GOODLING: And the last thing was the voter -- the caging issue, which was a reference to Tim Griffin.

REP. SANCHEZ: (D-CA) Can you explain what caging is? I'm not familiar with that term. (emphasis mine)

MS. GOODLING: You know, my understanding -- and I don't actually know a lot about it -- is that it's a direct mail term that people who do direct mail -- when they separate addresses that may be good versus addresses that may be bad -- that's the best information that I have, that it just -- that it's a direct mail term that's used by vendors in that circumstance.
But in any case, I knew that that was an issue that might arise, because there had been stories about it.

REP. SANCHEZ: That Tim Griffin was involved in that to some degree --

MS. GOODLING: That there was -- right.

REP. SANCHEZ: -- or may have been involved.

MS. GOODLING: Right. No, and I don't -- I believe that Mr. Griffin doesn't believe that he did anything wrong there, and there actually is a very good reason for it, for -- or a very good explanation.

REP. SANCHEZ: But Mr. Sampson -- pardon me -- Mr. McNulty was aware of that and --

MS. GOODLING: He was aware that that was an issue. I told him the day before that it was -- that there was a good chance that it could come up, and I did provide him with information the night before to make sure that he had some information to review so they could help to answer those questions.

:kick: & R

INVESTIGATE IMPEACH INDICT IMPRECATE INCARCERATE :banghead:

[JTFrog]

7. She knows exactly what caging is and her definition

to congress, while it's one definition, is certainly not the complete definition. She almost got it right when she said seperating out the good addresses from the bad. She just forgot to add: Caging has also been used as a form of voter suppression. A political party challenges the validity of a voter's registration; for the voter's ballot to be counted, the voter must prove that their registration is valid.

I was so furious when no one called her on that.

[solara]

13. You would think someone like Conyers, who has been

waiting patiently for years to have the power of a majority would actually EXERCISE it when he got it.


Bah! :mad:

INVESTIGATE IMPEACH INDICT IMPRECATE INCARCERATE :banghead:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

28. Call him

[rodeodance]

34. lets ALL send conyers and sanchez the IP post

[Barrett808]

31. Rep. Linda Sanchez contact info:

DC Address: The Honorable Linda T. Sanchez
United States House of Representatives
1222 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0539
DC Phone: [phone]
DC Fax: [phone]
Email Address: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
WWW Homepage: http://www.house.gov/lindasanchez/

District Office:
17906 Crusader Avenue, Suite 100
Cerritos, CA 90703 Voice: 562-860-5050
FAX: Not Currently Available

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=CA39&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=CA&zipcode=&plusfour=

[orleans]

38. sanchez apparently doesn't want to hear from anyone who doesn't

live in her district.

she has one of those fucked up contact forms. it pisses me off to no end when these reps do that. so CALL HER!

District Office 562-860-5050


Washington, DC 202-225-6676

[trudyco]

54. I think Sanchez et al know about caging lists - they just wanted

Monica to state it for the TV. I think they will bring back in Sampson and McNulty and Goodling and circle in. At least I hope so. I'm sure Conyers has the emails.

Do you think the Iraq war vote was to pacify Lieberman so they can continue to do this Inquiry? Make it look like they are not being belligerent and that they aren't doing this to badger the president and then hope that enough unfolds that even the MSM has to report it?

I can't tell if the Dems are actually working together or if there are two different camps. Ones with spines and a sense of justice and then the DLC.

[denverbill]

41. Emailed my Congressman. K&R! n/t

[sellitman]

8. So where is the outrage?

When is Rove going down? What else is needed?

[ClintonTyree]

10. We've been askig ourselves that question for years........

and it seems the answer is........never. The Bush imperial presidency has so threatened and cowed every republican that they'll continue to walk in lockstep with them come hell or high water. Ineffectual Democrats don't have the courage to stand up to the Bush mob so it looks like it will be "business as usual" for the Bush cabal until term limits force them from power.

I know, it drives me crazy as well but I've seen nothing to even suggest that there will be any change in course until 2009. If then. Canada is looking pretty good lately.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. But doesn't it seem bigger? More?

Not just the lockstep Repugs - it is the media as well. This mind lock up is better organized and larger than I think most people can comprehend. And it must be about $$$$$.

[Jackpine Radical]

25. OF COURSE it's more, not just the Puggies.

It's the Corporate State, a political system in which the state is run by and for the private corporations.

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."--FDR

[Orsino]

48. How long since the story broke?

BradBlog says "nightly news" without mentioning which night...or linking to the BBC report.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Hope they can pick up the pace, get more focused. It would be a real crime

to let this one pass without further comment. My god.

http://www.arktimes.com.nyud.net:8090/Assets/Article/28reporter_image1.jpg

Griffin

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/uploaded_images/Gonzales%20and%20Bush-758786.jpg http://casadelogo.typepad.com.nyud.net:8090/photos/uncategorized/karl_rove.jpg

Bush’s New US Attorney a Criminal?
Published March 28th, 2007
BBC Television had exposed 2004 voter attack scheme by appointee Griffin, a Rove aide.
Black soldiers and the homeless targeted.
by Greg Palast

http://www.gregpalast.com/bushs-new-us-attorney-a-criminal/

[MasonJar]

14. Can those of you who know how please send this info to Sanchez and Conyers?

[AndyA]

17. Just click the "E-mail this thread to a friend" link on the left side above the

thread. DU's software will send it for you.

I think everyone on the committee should see this. (Of course, you can skip the belching in the mike, slurping, sucking, throbbing Repugs, because they think this is a good thing.)

[cspanlovr]

23. Ye gods! I thought I was hearing things! All those disgusting noises were repubs

doing it on purpose? They really are pigs.

[scubadude]

15. Link down

Bradblog down. At least it's not working for me. Anyone else having this problem?

It's back, at least I can get to "it" now.

[Chemical Bill]

18. Me too. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

16. k and r, fer sure

Thank you Mr. Palast...

[L. Coyote]

19. CONTEXT: the looking glass that was the Holy Office at the DoJ.

CONTEXT: for "If the members had gotten the clue, and asked the right questions,"

This was the opener. They were being somewhat kind to the witness because she is no longer entirely a "hostile witness" and because this is just the beginning of obtaining the information she has. There was an effort to get as much out as possible in a public forum, but it is important to remember that they had no clue about what exactly sh would say. Typically, testimony before a committee entails lots of pre-testimony to committeee staff and some certainty of what will be said. Now, they get to ask the follow-up questions. You saw the opener and the opening--now we walk thru the looking glass that was the Holy Office at the DoJ.

[SharonRB]

20. Has anyone sent this story to Olbermann?

It's been going around the 'nets for weeks -- when will someone cover it in the MSM? KO is our guy.

[bagrman]

22. Has anyone copied the emails out of the header and sent the story to them.

[bagrman]

21. Didn't take long to get those links shut down.

[KoKo]

24. Why hasn't either the House or Senate Judiciary asked Palast for those e-mails?

Why? :shrug:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

27. Maybe they didn't know until now? Give them a call

[ellacott]

29. Greg was on Randi's show yesterday

He said he has a meeting scheduled with Conyers. It's amazing that they haven't done more. There was even an email from Rove saying he's glad that no American Press has picked up on the things that Palast has been reporting. Gregg has had these emails for years na dhas been reporting on this. ABC has and arrangement to share news with the BBC and they could show his reports at any time.

[RaRa]

26. This story demands action from ALL of us.

I'm contacting alot of Congressman and reporters Monday. This is really HUGE.

[Barrett808]

30. Contacting the Congress - all the info you need here:

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress

[orleans]

36. another snip of testimony

it would appear that at least nadler understood what a caging list was:

REP. NADLER: Okay. And are you aware -- well, let me -- thank you. Let me pursue that a moment.

You testified a few minutes ago about the deputy attorney general, Mr. McNulty, his testimony, which you said was not correct in all respects. In your written statement you go in some detail into how incorrect it was.

And you talk about that he testified that he did not have any knowledge of how Tim Griffin came to be recommended for interim appointment; in fact, you had informed him of the effort to remove Bud Cummins in order to arrange an opportunity for Mr. Griffin since the spring or early summer. The status of the Arkansas office came up frequently in your briefings over the next six months.

He testified the Parsky Commission worked very well and that they respected the process, when in fact he knew that the department's internal consensus was to the contrary. The deputy also knew that although a determination had been made to continue to use it, there had been some efforts to interview candidates outside the Parsky Commission process, and that he was aware of the department's dissatisfaction with the commission's process, because you briefed him. And you also testify that he testified he did not know anything about allegations that Tim Griffin caged black votes, but that in fact you had informed him this issue could arise and you had prepared him to answer the questions about it.

These would seem to be direct contradictions. In effect, your testimony is that the deputy attorney general misinformed the -- misinformed the Senate Judiciary in sworn testimony. Is that not correct?

MS. GOODLING: I'm just saying that he was -- that I didn't believe he was fully candid. And the point that I was trying to make is that I did give him some information. I didn't withhold information. I gave him a lot of information. And he had some of that information and didn't use all of it.

REP. NADLER: Although in fact he stated things directly contrary to what your written statement says he knew to be true.

MS. GOODLING: Those would be conclusions for others to draw.

REP. NADLER: Okay. That's fair enough.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/us/24mfulltext.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

and from monica's opening statement:
"As explained in more detail in my written remarks, I believe the deputy was not fully candid about his knowledge of White House involvement in the replacement decision, failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of the White House's interest in selecting Tim Griffin as the interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Arkansas, inaccurately described the department's internal assessment of the Parsky Commission and failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote caging during his work on the president's 2004 campaign."

[vanboggie]

52. OK I did it

Fool me once...or whatever variant Dimson spouted. I just wrote my two senators for what it's worth. They're Dems, but...well you know, after caving to the idiot and leaving our troops (and my nephew) in Iraq, I'm not waiting for a miracle. My House congress critter is worse - a died in the wool R-con. I don't waste keyboard time on that fool anymore. Anyway, I sent the link from Palast's work above, and added the Ohio SOS server going down on election night 2004 and coming back up with * ahead on the RNC server dressed as the OH SOS site. I even mentioned that the setup is already in with the installation of the new prosecutors to help them steal 2008.

This has to be well over a hundred times I've asked them to do something about stolen elections. I'm weary and discouraged.
BUT, I guess hope springs eternal. I also wrote Conyers, which made me feel a little better.

:banghead:

[catrose]

37. K&R eom

[Liberty Belle]

39. Ask the media to cover this!

It's insane that I see no coverage of this on the major TV networks.

Why is CNN's poll for today asking whether the right person won American idol, when it should be reporting on this damning testimony by Goodling and asking Americans about it?

[libodem]

40. Please let this be our 'Little Blue Dress'

When I think of that phone book sized stack of papers slapped down on Clinton's desk just for the Paula Jones suit and all the Monica horseshit I could scream. All the undue distraction from running this country for the People. We all have to know that the GOP was cordoned off in little private 'Conservative Institutes' run by Billionaires who were dying to get Clinton out and their own interests of the Military Industrial Complex, pumping out bullets and bombs and fighter jets to make them more Billions. Where are our our Billionaire Institutes with a hidden agenda running a 'Shadow Government'? These Criminals are one dirty bag of tricks after another. I hope someone can stay one step ahead of the next 'dog and pony' 'Osama's gonna git ya' acts. Blah, blah, blah, into the wind...end rant.....( My God, I sound crazy and deluded with conspiracy theories..I must be somewhere near the truth)

[FailureFries]

42. We could have the equivalent

of Bush shooting his load all over Goodling on live TV (was she wearing blue?)
but if the Dem's refuse to act, to not do their duty beyond the theatrics of these apparently deliberate toothless hearings; what does it matter?

Apologies for being so crude, remove the post if it violates TOS, I'm too new here to know the limits. It's the only metaphor I have at this time that seems to fit.

Apologies also for being so full of dismay, it just feels so damned hopeless.

[blondie58]

50. good point, FailureFries

it does seem so hopeless.

And welcome to DU!

[lonestarnot]

44. Felony never sounded so good!

[19jet54]

45. I hope you are correct?

Proving it is another matter, because "intent" is hard to prove in these somewhat gray areas. They always operate with part truth, part legal & usually without a solid trail of evidence? i.e. Was this ONLY done in black neighborhoods?

[BrainGlutton]

46. Palast says the Pubs who challenged voters in '04 should be jailed . . .

. . . but I've reviewed the Voting Rights Act and it does not, unfortunately, assign any criminal penalties for violation. Is there any other law under which they might be jailed?

[Divine Discontent]

47. WHO CARES ABOUT THIS CRAP???

I'm just excited over which song Hillary's going to pick from her youtube "Choose My Campaign Song" contest!
:sarcasm:

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<-- check it out, top '08 stuff

[peacetheonlyway]

49. Palast is a genius, I trust what he says inherently

this is the real story.

and congress is asleep at the wheel while the boat of american democracy veers eerily toward nuclear showdown in the middle east.

the historical analysis of this whole bush debacle will point to election fraud.

and that would make palast the oldest and wisest advocate of peeking behind the curtain regarding this debacle.. the only person who pre-empted palast was perhaps mckinney.

either way, tha man is a genius and I would encourage another BBC exclusive that palast did on the mexico situation to be similar that he should do a video overview of the whole Justice dept. gig.

palast, we want you to do another video on this.... the citizens really care about this story in all it's bloody truth.

[Honeycombe8]

51. Has anyone sent this to the committee questioning Goodling? n/t

[MagickMuffin]

53. Hey Brad, What am I missing here

I've read and reread the opening statement and I do not see where Monica fingered Kyle Sampson, but instead is fingering Paul McNulty.

Am I not reading this correctly:shrug: Or is this just to confusing for me to figure out:shrug:

Either way this cannot be a good thing for the DOJ. I think congress should reconsider calling her back in to clarify her testimony.

Some questions:

Did Palast contact members of congress to brief them on caging list?

I was surprised Sanchez said she had NEVER heard about caging list. What a pity, she could have really dropped a dime on Monica by knowing what questions to ask about caging list. Apparently she still doesn't know what a caging list is since Monnica gave a distorted answer.

Has Palast sent the committee his stash of emails from georgewbush.org?

It would seem to me Greg should have sent ALL his copies to the committee prior to Monica's testimony.

What's stopping him from giving the committee the emails?

Wouldn't provide valuable information that they are seeking but unable to obtain through the appropriate channels?

Please help me out here, so I am better informed.:hi: