Is ACORN being investigated by the FBI? (updated)

[ProSense]

Officials: FBI investigates ACORN for voter fraud

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.

A senior law enforcement official confirmed the investigation to The Associated Press. A second senior law enforcement official says the FBI was looking at results of inquiries in several states, including a raid on ACORN's office in Las Vegas, for any evidence of a coordinated national effort.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because Justice Department regulations forbid discussing ongoing investigations particularly so close to an election.

Two spokesmen for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, on Thursday said the FBI has not contacted the group.

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WTF?

Returning to the Scene of the Crime

By Josh Marshall

So now we hear leaked word that the FBI is beginning an investigation into whether ACORN "helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election" and where there is "any evidence of a coordinated national scam."

Let's note a few points. DC Republicans have been aggressively lobbying the DOJ to open an investigation into ACORN in advance of the election. And leaking word of such an investigation (possibly starting the investigation at all) most likely violates DOJ guidelines about DOJ/FBI actions which can end up interfering with or manipulating an election.

But, remember, this is right out of the book of the Bush Justice Department's efforts to assist in GOP voter suppression efforts in the 2004 and 2006 elections (part and parcel of the US Attorney firing story). This is the same scam US Attorney firing player Bradley Schlozman got in trouble for pulling with ACORN just before the 2006 election. And before he got canned, Gonzales helped revise and soften the departmental prohibition on DOJ announcements, thus making it easier to play these kinds of games.

This is a big deal. It may be their last gasp to use the DOJ to help mitigate the scale of Republican defeat on November 4th.

[EFerrari]

1. Lara is one of the same pair from AP that brought us all the FBI talking points

about Bruce Ivins.

Is FBI investigating? Probably. But, they're not the FBI you remember. This is a thoroughly politicized outfit, ProSense. Remember all the cr@p they leaked about Ivins that turned out to be 100% Bullshit? This is the Bush DoJ.

ETA: Truthfully, I CANNOT WAIT until FBI starts their b.s.. I know exactly how they are working nowadays and it will be very easy to deconstruct.

[leftofcool]

2. Well, the FBI did confiscate their files, so one would assume so

[ProSense]

4. Same BS scam being aided by Bush's DOJ. n/t

[NJmaverick]

3. Bush controls the Justice department and the FBI

is it any surprise that he would use the FBI the way ole J Edgar Hoover did?

[ProSense]

5. What's Behind the Feds' ACORN Probe?

What's Behind the Feds' ACORN Probe?