NYT: ROVE Must Testify Under Oath-"Even Wizard Of Oz Eventually Came Out From Behind The Curtain"

[kpete]

Editorial
The Fantasy Behind the Scandal
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Published: April 15, 2007

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It’s obvious why the Bush administration would edit those documents, but why the voting report? Because charges of voter fraud are a key component of the Republican electoral strategy. If the public believes there are rampant efforts to vote fraudulently, or to register voters improperly, it increases support for measures like special voter ID’s, which work against the poor, the elderly, minorities and other disenfranchised groups that tend to support Democrats. Claims of rampant voter fraud also give the administration an excuse to cut back prosecutions of the real problem: officials who block voters’ access to the polls.

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The Bush administration was so determined to pursue this phantom scourge that it deported a legal Florida resident back to his native Pakistan for mistakenly filling out a voter registration card when he renewed his driver’s license. And it may well have decided to fire most of the eight federal prosecutors because they would not play along.

It is vital that Congress get to the truth about these firings. Last week, the Republican National Committee threw up another roadblock, claiming it had lost four years’ worth of e-mail messages by Karl Rove that were sent on a Republican Party account. Those messages, officials admitted, could include some about the United States attorneys. It is virtually impossible to erase e-mail messages fully, and the claims that they are gone are not credible.

The only solution is to get these issues out into the open. It is good that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will finally testify in the Senate this week. But Mr. Rove, who seems to be at the heart of this affair, should also be required to testify under oath — and in public. Even the Wizard of Oz eventually came out from behind the curtain.

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[malaise]

1. This Obstruction of the law has some big teeth

Frog march time.

[acmavm]

2. Well, the quisling NYT comes to yet another obivous conclusion that the

rest of us had way back when KKKarl's shenannigan's first started to come to light. It just cracks me up to read this shit after the last eight years of their lying and covering up for bush** and the rest of these criminals.

I say 8 years because I include Smirk's first campaign. The NYT KNEW what a slime ball he is, they covered for him every step of the way, and then when the successful and they commandeered the White House and the federal government, the NYT was just fine with it.

Screw the NYT.

[Champion Jack]

3. ie: voter fraud

"And it may well have decided to fire most of the eight federal prosecutors because they would not play along."

The bigger question is: did the other 85 "play along"? and if so what is to become of them?

[Triana]

4. WHO is going to make Rove testify? WHO is going to subpoena him?

No one. And if they did, George would forbid it. They'll have to find a way to FORCE him to do it and - can they do that?

[Land Shark]

5. Bouble-voting almost impossible to impact result; Insider Election Fraud Delivers PAYOFF

there needs to be a distinction drawn at all times between voter fraud and election fraud otherwise people will not be inclined to defend our elections -- the threat being misdirected as being only from voters and concluded (properly) as being small...

[EVDebs]

6. And beyond just a voting scandal...a money trail scandal to boot

"It's all part of a growing ongoing investigation into corruption in defense and intelligence contracts, which already has sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to prison and, legal sources say, may threaten others in Congress and the CIA. "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250 /

Bush fired Lam in order to obstruct justice and stop her investigation(s)

and during Watergate the moneytrail was never followed back to its origin. The Mexican bank and its mysterious 'Chilean investors' were merely a footnote in All The President's Men. The CIA connection to Watergate was the money Nixon sent down to destabilize Allende, with a skim coming back to fund Nixon's CREEP. It could even be a portion of the CIA's drug money that comes 'off the record' via The Golden Triangle, which Nixon himself had explode with the buy-down of the Turkish heroin crop.

Nowadays the suppression of the Octopus, vainly reported by Danny Casolaro and Gary Webb, has become SO huge it can't be ignored any longer. Democracy is now at stake. It isn't a small time covert ops program anymore but the core of the corrupt system; the investigations have been stopped by the GOP Attorney-gate firings. Some in Congress wanna know WHY.