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Investigators are (finally) heading for Washington, to get White House phone records and sworn statements from top officials, after NH Judge Phillip Mangones today gave a death blow to the long cover-up of NH’s 2002 phone-jamming scandal.
NH Republicans–with enthusiastic help from the US Justice Department–have managed to postpone now for many years the Democrats’ efforts to take sworn statements from any of the phone-jamming co-conspirators. Republicans got court orders to postpone the Democrats’ civil suit on the basis that the (very few) criminal defendants pursued by the US DOJ should not have to answer questions under oath for a civil suit. |
This morning, this long charade finally came to an end, as Judge Philip Mangones ruled that NH Democrats could now finally pursue their civil suit.
He also granted the Democrats’ itemized request to demand sworn statements from White House record keepers, past and present chairs for the Republican National Committee, and others whose role never drew US DOJ attention despite the evidence and sworn testimony suggesting their involvement.
You’d like to think our government would take more of an interest in election sabotage, but at least Judge Mangones is finally letting the Democrats pursue their own investigation…
Update as of *very* early July 14:
- John DiStaso in the July 14 Union Leader
- Senate Majority July 13 press release on the decision
- Short AP story issued July 13
- Slightly longer and later Reuters story
- Washington Post has the AP and Reuters versions–not sure what it would take to wake up any of their “investigative reporters.”