The Tom DeLay scoop in today’s LA Times suggests that Tom DeLay could exorcise scary threats from the Federal Government:
“Delay and two others helped put the brakes on a federal probe of a businessman…The effort to help Hurwitz began in 1999 when DeLay wrote a letter to the chairman of the FDIC denouncing the investigation of Hurwitz as a “form of harassment and deceit on the part of government employees.” When the FDIC persisted, Doolittle and Pombo both considered proteges of DeLay …inserted many of the sensitive documents into the Congressional Record, making them public and accessible to Hurwitz’s lawyers, a move that FDIC officials said damaged the government’s ability to pursue the banker.
So, if you were wondering why James Tobin, when Justice Department lawyers were closing in, in June of 2004, might be advised to send a fast $2,000 to Tom DeLay…
And the only thing that finally ended the stonewalling, that finally brought James Tobin’s name out of the Justice Department’s top-secret super-duper double-good-old-boys background and into the public eye, was a lawsuit the frustrated NH Democrats finally filed on October 14, 2004.
But, as Josh Marshall points out today, NH Republicans just filed a countersuit, claiming that the Democrats had no reason at all to sue them, none whatsoever, except to interfere with the GOP’s “constitutionally protected election activities.”
I don’t know about you, but I find this whole thing pretty spooky.