New Documents Revealed In Case Of Huckabee's Support For Freeing Rapist

[antiimperialist]

Source: Huffington Post

When first informed of our story last Tuesday, Huckabee spokesperson Alice Stewart said, "There were no letters sent to the governor's office from any rape victims." Later on Tuesday, Huckabee's campaign acknowledged that his office had received at least one letter from another Dumond victim.

On Wednesday, Huckabee campaign research director Joe Carter claimed in a statement that "the authenticity of the letters is questionable." Yet, in an interview with ABC News aired on Wednesday evening, Huckabee personally acknowledged receiving one of these letters from a previous victim of Dumond, and said he had also "encountered" the rape victim.

Since the Huckabee campaign has questioned the validity of the original report, the Huffington Post has decided to release additional documents from Huckabee's file on Dumond.
Read the new documents in full here.

The file, which was provided by a staffer to then-governor Huckabee who was concerned about his handling of the case, includes 12 separate letters written by eight different women. (This includes the three documents posted for the original story). Three of the women reported being raped or sexually assaulted by Dumond. One, whose writings have not been made public up to this point, wrote about her harrowing assault at Dumond's hands.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/10/new-documents-revealed-in_n_76186.html

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Republicans love to cry fraud when caught in the act. Larry Craig said he was entrapped. Giuliani said the Politico article detailing his tax schemes when dealing with his mistress where "a hitjob". Now Huckabee's camp attempted to say the letters released by Murray Waas last week were phony. Well now we don't have two, but over a dozen letters detailing Dumond's rapes.

[1corona4u]

1. They're all lying scumbags...every last one of them.

[Captain Angry]

2. Reasonable doubt

They yell those things so that they're in the public record.

As a politician, they will be quoted.

And then they can deflect and misdirect later based on the fact that some sources say that the information was incorrect.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I watched Huckabee lie like a remorseless sociopath on this case--

he is truly incapable of accepting responsibility for his actions. I don't care if he adopts every position on the Democratic platform, he'd be a worse President than Bush. He is easily swayed by bad elements, and undeterred by fact and reality. Once he thinks God is telling him something, that's all he needs to know.

[eib1]

8. It's called sociopathy.

nt

[Joe Bacon]

4. HUCK YOU, MIKE!

:evilgrin:

[ejbr]

5. What a fucking turd...

instead of considering the release of a battered woman who had to kill her abusive husband in self defense, this asshole has to get worked up about the release of a rapist! Republican priorities are so fuckin' twisted.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Republicans are good at crying fraud.

We have to do a better job of showing the evidence that they can't disprove.

In this case, it looks like they might be hitting their own case.

"Since the Huckabee campaign has questioned the validity of the original report", aren't they also questioning the validity of Huckabee when he acknowledges of the letters?

[eib1]

7. This man doesn't believe in rape

as a crime or as a social reality.
May he be born a woman in the next world.

[German1972]

9. are this the moral standarts of

true us patriots?
Poor America.

[windoe]

10. Women should 'quietly submit'

and obey--He is a sick man if he thinks this concept will go over in 2008.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

14. What are you?! Some kind of feminist?

Bring Back Feudalism

[connecticut yankee]

11. I wonder

if Chucklebee would have released Dumond if Clinton's cousin wasn't the victim?

[wishlist]

12. He refuses to take any responsibility, lying on TV that it is political hitjob

The media is attempting to get out the message that Huckabee is an unhinged liar. CNN's Anderson Cooper ran a program last night covering the pardon and Huck's misinformed views of Aids. Huckabee apparently still believes he was correct about need for Aids victims to be quaranteed despite all the public health information out at the time of his initial statements that Aids was not contagious

[rockybelt]

13. What a sorry excuse for a human being. nt

[Cass]

15. And he hasn't bothered to give any explanation why he did this.

Its not just Dumond either, there's more. What would possess a person to issue pardons and clemencies to known dangerous, violent offenders like he did? He hasn't provided a rational explanation for his actions yet that I'm aware of. This whole thing blows my mind.

When you talk to prosecutors around the state, many of them will tell you they're unhappy that Gov. Huckabee pardons criminals without letting law-enforcement officials or victims' families know why he's doing it, as he's required by law.
...
Herzfeld successfully sued to keep a murderer named Don Jeffers behind bars (at least for a while longer) after Huckabee granted him clemency without explanation as required by law: "On granting an application (for executive clemency), the Governor shall include in his written order the reasons thereforeŠ."

Attorney General Mike Beebe, in nullifying the pardon, agreed that the governor had erred when he didn't give reasons why he had pardoned Jeffers and didn't even contact the prosecutor or the victim's family about how he felt about the pardon.
http://www.arkansasleader.com/frontstories/st_06_30_04/huckabee2.html

[lumpy]

16. Huckabee's obsession in his belief that God is directing

his actions is obviously causing him to make faulty decisions. Religious fervor can be a dangerous thing and is something rather akin to insanity.