Am about 1/3 through Greg Palast's book, and am enjoying it. Karl Rove has a highlighted copy in his office, as an aid to generating talking points in response, if an American corporate media outlet ever picks up the story.
BBC Reporter Has Rove Office Emails - Goodling/Sampson Obstruction of Justice evidence? Greg Palast :
In the opening to today’s testimony before Congress, Monica Goodling, former Department of Justice White House Liaison, testified that Deputy Attorney General Kyle Sampson lied. At issue was, says Goodling, Sampson’s denial “that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote ‘caging’ during the work on the President’s 2004 campaign.”
... The BBC reporter explained that ‘vote caging’ is a crime; Tim Griffin directed it; Karl Rove, Goodling and Sampson knew it, yet Rove demanded the appointment of Griffin as the US Attorney for Arkansas.‘Caging’ was a 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign scheme to challenge, on false evidence, the right to vote of tens of thousand of Black voters.
Here’s how caging works: letters were sent “Do Not Forward” to voters at home addresses. When the letters were returned to sender (“caged”), the voter’s right to vote was challenged. The letters, however, were targeted at African-American homeless men, students — and soldiers send overseas — all legal voters who, because they were shipped to Iraq or for other reasons, were not at their home address. BBC obtained 50 ‘caging’ lists with 70,000 voters including large groups of servicemen.
See the BBC report here:
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