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June 18, 2007 at 14:13:09
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In last week’s pathetic farewell, Mr. Griffin averred that the accusation he was involved in caging voters, “Goes back to one guy - whose name I won’t mention.” (FYI, Mr. Griffin: My mother calls me, “Gregory.”) Yes, I first reported the story for BBC London - back in 2004 which, as Griffin correctly noted, it was ignored by my US press colleagues until, as Tim put it, “I became embroiled in the US Attorney thing.” By ‘the US Attorney thing,’ I assume you are referring to your involvement in firing and smearing honest prosecutors and grabbing one of their salaries for yourself. You say, Mr. Griffin, that the unmentionable reporter, “Made [it] up out of whole cloth.” You flatter me, Mr. Griffin. We could not possibly be so creative at The Beeb as to construct the thousands of names of voters on your caging lists. And by the way, we don’t have just one of your “caging” emails, but scores of them.
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for sending them to us - even if that was not your intent. You copied your caging missives to ‘bdoster@georgewbush.org.’ Mr. Doster was Chairman of the Florida Bush campaign - but that address was not his but John Wooden’s pretending to be the Bush campaigners. Wooden then sent your notes to me.
Rove in Range
By the way, Mr. Griffin, if you want an explanation of ‘caging voters,’ just read an email dated February 5, 2007 by…Tim Griffin.
In that email, Griffin references the Bush campaigns mailing out thousands of letters. The letters returned (’caged’) as undeliverable were used as the GOP’s supposed evidence that these were “thousands of 
fraudulent voter registrations.” These voters were subject to challenge. However, these caging lists of “fraudulent” addresses, like the 2000 “felon” lists which in fact contained no felons, contained no fraudulent voters. But that wouldn’t necessarily save them from the massively successful Republican voter-challenge campaign.
During the appearance he made in Arkansas last week, Griffin said he’d never heard of ‘caging.’ “I had to look it up,” he said. Griffin discovered that “caging” is “a direct mail term.”
I don’t doubt Griffin’s ignorance. Griffin’s just a good ol’ boy, a former military lawyer, who wouldn’t know direct mail terminology from a hole in the ground. Until he went to work for the RNC.
So where did Tim get this direct mail term he used in his emails? Well, before Karl Rove signed on with George W. Bush, he owned Karl Rove & Co ….a direct mail firm. Rove made millions making up lists of voters, doing more ‘caging’ than a zoo-keeper.
Am I saying caging-expert Rove had something to do with the allegedly illegal caging games of his boy Griffin? Does a bear…?
Mr. Griffin wouldn’t answer BBC’s requests for comment. So I suggested to an Arkansas local, Luther Lowe, a former army reservist and himself a victim of a challenge to his vote, that at the Little Rock send-off for Griffin, he ask the fallen US Attorney about Rove’s involvement in caging. Lowe did so, politely. Griffin wove, ducked, blathered and blubbered. But wouldn’t answer.
Maybe a subpoena would encourage a Griffin response. And a grant of immunity from the Conyers committee. That’s Rove’s nightmare. Because unless Griffin joins Alberto Gonzales in Club Amnesia, Griffin has a lot to tell us about Mr. Rove and targeting Black voters.
Will he? It’s not Conyers’ style to hunt down Rove. The congressman is not, despite what Republicans say, a partisan hit man. He is, however, one tenacious legislator who told me he would like his committee, “to follow where the evidence leads.”
But that’s not necessarily going to happen. Conyers told me he sees the evidence in the prosecutor firing investigation leading to the much bigger, nastier issue of voter suppression - in simpler terms, fixing elections.
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The main difference between Griffin and Rove
Griffin cries when he is caught and humiliated. Rove smirks and puts another notch in his belt. I laughed so hard reading this I almost cried. ;-) by Kathlyn Stone (46 articles, 227 quicklinks, 27 diaries, 690 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jun 18, 2007 at 5:23:01 PM  (0+)
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From Article: The Tears of a Clone
Earlier this evening I posted a comment to the article: The Tears of A Clone. Before I posted that comment I read several comments posted to that article. Now, later this evening I come back to the article and all comments have been erased! What's going on here Rob? If comments get erased, OPEdNews will, I promise you, lose readers. Troubled Texan by TroubledTexan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 88 comments) on Monday, Jun 18, 2007 at 5:27:52 PM (0+)
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Reply: "From Article: The Tears of a Clone"
OK, Guess I'll have to suck it up on this one. Rob, I apologize for insinuating OpEdNews would delete comments. I had posted my comments over at Brad's Blog for this story. I didn't post a comment to this story on your site. Troubled by TroubledTexan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 88 comments) on Monday, Jun 18, 2007 at 5:47:29 PM (0+)
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Hey Greg....
Hey Greg.... Since you slandered Dr. Steven Jones, when are you going to respond to his challenge? Greg Palast known for his left-wing gate-keeping, now will also be known for his lack of integrity. ------------------ OPEN LETTER to Greg Palast from Steven E. Jones, Ph.D. Dear Mr. Palast, On May 10, 2007, in an INN TV interview, you made statements which were blatantly defamatory when you called me, by name, a "complete and utter fraud" and a "fruitcake." I demand either a retraction or substantiation of your accusations -- publicly. A lawyer friend affirms that your statements, available here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=r2oFTiEpIBQ , constitute "malicious defamation." You taunted: "Mr. Jones, come at me!" Here I am. I am ready to respond to your specific objections to my papers, or issues you wish to raise which support the "official story" of the Bush/Cheney administration, after you have first verified that you have actually read what I have written on the subject of controlled demolition at the World Trade Center: http://journalof911studies.com/volume/200704/ (space inserted) JonesWTC911SciMethod.pdf I will respond then to your statements which support the Bush/Cheney or "official story" for 9/11 events, and I will assure that the exchange will be made public. I propose publication of our exchange in the letters section of the Journalof911Studies.com, but you may choose another venue which is open to the public. Be sure to include your explanation of the iron-aluminum-rich microspheres which I discovered in the WTC dust if your explanation differs from mine, as well as the rapid straight-down collapse of WTC 7. Again, my lawyer friend describes your public remarks on INN on May 10, 2007, as "malicious defamation" and I think he is correct. Do you? You called me a "complete and utter fraud" and a "fruitcake." I maintain that I am of sound mind and not a fraud. However, I invite you to present your substantiation of these claims -- or retract your egregious defamations. Sincerely, Steven E. Jones, Ph.D. PS -- If you do not respond by July 25, 2007, I will consider other options. Thank you. Note that there are over one hundred engineers and architects listed in the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth web site, www.ae911truth.org , along with many at the www.stj911.org site, so you may wish to correct your mis-statement of last month that there are "no engineers" who challenge the official story. http://www.911blogger.(space inserted) com/node/9336#comment-150441 by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1359 comments [400 recommended, 8 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 6:57:19 AM (0+)
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Reply: This post is inappropriate...
... it has absolutely nothing to do with the article Greg wrote here. by Steven Leser (255 articles, 58 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 2148 comments [63 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 9:17:35 PM (0+)
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