TPM Muckraker Paul Kiel has a scoop:
The AP, in their story on calls to the White House, noted one call in particular, a 17 minute call from Jayne Millerick, then a GOP strategist working on the 2002 election. This was with the same number at the White House’s Office of Political Affairs that James Tobin called so frequently.
The AP simply noted the call, and reported Millerick as saying that she “did not recall the subject” and that she hadn’t learned of the plot until after the election.
But details from the phone records analyized by the Senate Majority Project suggest that Millerick was fully aware of the plot to jam the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s phone lines..Millerick made a run of calls on the day of the jamming that suggest that she was looking for legal advice.
This blog’s readers may recall Jayne Millerick’s protestations, back when the phone-jamming scandal hit the newspapers, of surprise and innocence. She wanted to talk instead about a new code of ethics she and her GOP friends were all going to sign. Search this news story archive for her name, and watch her story mutate over time.
Go, TPM Muckraker, go!
Update: More on this story and a link to Millerick’s phone records at SenateMajority.com.
