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The House Judiciary Committee has a new and better way to unravel the long, tangled phone-jamming coverup.
Thats the real news in this letter from Conyers to Attorney General (pdf)–something reporters seem to have missed, so far. |
“What did the White House know and when did they know it?” Several million Republican dollars and years of Department of Justice “slow-walk” (detailed timeline here) kept investigators from tracking NH’s phone-jamming scandal up into Washington.
Meanwhile, Republicans who were in NH in 2002 all seem to have lawyered up and/or lost lots of memory.
So Conyers will pull on the string’s other end, at last! He will pull on the DC end, not the NH end.
On behalf of the House Judiciary Committee, he wants to get answers from the US Department of Justice about incident after incident in their non-pursuit of the Republican phone-jammers.
- Why did all decisions regarding the phone-jamming prosecution have to be referred directly to the US Attorney General’s office?
- Why was the FBI agent assigned to the phone-jamming case (there was only one, and she worked part-time on it) ordered not to trace any leads that led to Washington?
- Why did the US Department of Justice help Republicans block enquiries in the NH Democrats civil suit in 2004?
Thanks to Congressman Paul Hodes (NH-Dem), a member of Conyers’ committee, for setting this investigation in motion. Let’s hope Congress goes further and faster than the DOJ!