Phone Jamming Cover-up at DoJ? Conyers Wants Answers

It happened nearly five years ago, but House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) still has plenty of questions about the New Hampshire phone jamming case.

In a letter Wednesday, he asked Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler a number of questions about the case, focusing in particular on whether the Justice Department has "adequately investigated and prosecuted" the case. You can read the letter here. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Good on Conyers. Crimes against democracy should be prosecuted expediciously, they should not be dropped from vigorous prosecution, especially if they were promulgated by politicians on the prosecutors side of the fence. Prosecutions are supposed to be persued in the public interest, not in the sole interest of the Neocon Party.

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by Peter Henry - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a short story revisiting an old campaign corruption story in light of the exposed political corruption inside the Department of Justice. The original scandal involved a Republican campaign of jamming up Democratic get-out-the-vote phone lines in New Hampshire. Two operatives have already done their time and a third conviction is being retried. Information which has just been released suggests that the investigation may have been impeded from within the DOJ and John Conyers ... More »

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by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 1, 2008

In covering a story so vitally important to our so-called democracy, inclusion of details about the corruption of election irregularities in Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, and elsewhere, as well as problems with the Republican-owned voting systems and illegally-conducted recounts in Ohio and refusal to allow international observers, would have given a more complete picture of problems with our voting system so extreme that former president Carter's voting integrity group would not have ... More »

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by Paul Blumenthal - Oct. 1, 2008
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