Reply #30: Rove Pick for US Attorney Resigns After BBC Television "Newsnight" report

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Conyers Requests Palast's "Vote Caging" Evidence
By Brad Friedman
t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor
Monday 04 June 2007
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060407R.shtml


... Rove Pick for US Attorney Resigns After Conyers Seeks Evidence From BBC ... Tim Griffin, formerly right-hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television "Newsnight" reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network's evidence on Griffin's involvement in "caging voters." ....

Experts have concluded the caging lists were designed for a mass challenge of voters' right to cast ballots. The caging lists were heavily weighted with minority voters, including African-American homeless men, students and soldiers sent overseas.

Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating the firing of US attorneys, met Thursday evening in New York with Palast. After reviewing key documents, Conyers stated that, despite Griffin's resignation, "We're not through with him by any means."

Conyers indicated that he thought it unlikely that Griffin could carry out this massive caging operation without the knowledge of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rove. ......