Feds end prosecution of GOP organizer

[BlueJessamine]

Source: Boston Globe

BANGOR, Maine—The federal government has ended its prosecution of a former Republican political organizer accused of making false statements to FBI agents investigating a plot to jam Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire on Election Day 2002.

The case against James Tobin of Bangor came to a quiet conclusion with a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston mandate dismissing an appeal by prosecutors.

Tobin was cleared in federal court in New Hampshire of taking part in the plot to arrange more than 800 hang-up calls that jammed get-out-the-vote phone lines.

Then the government brought charges in Maine of lying to investigators, and a judge dismissed those. The appeals court ruling, first reported by the Bangor Daily News, was issued last week.


Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2009/05/27/feds_end_prosecution_of_gop_organizer/

[ck4829]

1. And Don Siegelman is still in trouble, why?

This guy was guilty as sin.

[blm]

4. Because some powerful dems don't WANT election theft examined closely. The public CAN'T KNOW that

both 2002 and 2004 were stolen elections.

Siegelman's race in 2002 was stolen along with Cleland and Georgia governor and Siegelman's legal case at its core was about Rove preparing to steal 2004.

Did you ever see the DNC or any of the bigname Dems stand up for Siegelman and question what was going on? No. McAuliffe sat on his hands. Clintons and all their media-darling minions stayed quiet and sided with Bush.

[midnight]

13. Exactly!!!! That was what I was thinking.

[villager]

2. Well, of course they do. So they can end prosecutions against the GOP, yet are "forced"

...to continue Bush-era legal positions peeling away constitutional rights?

What about "ending" some of those?

[Bozita]

3. Martha Stewart lied to the FBI. We know what happened to her.

[Shipwack]

5. Actually, Martha never really lied..

She was arrested for saying she was innocent of a crime that she was never formally charged with. This was called "obstruction of justice".

[Bozita]

6. Thank you. ... You're correct.

[Hissyspit]

7. Feds End Prosecution of GOP Organizer

Source: Associated Press

Feds end prosecution of GOP organizer
May 27, 2009

BANGOR, Maine—The federal government has ended its prosecution of a former Republican political organizer accused of making false statements to FBI agents investigating a plot to jam Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire on Election Day 2002.

The case against James Tobin of Bangor came to a quiet conclusion with a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston mandate dismissing an appeal by prosecutors.

Tobin was cleared in federal court in New Hampshire of taking part in the plot to arrange more than 800 hang-up calls that jammed get-out-the-vote phone lines.

Then the government brought charges in Maine of lying to investigators, and a judge dismissed those. The appeals court ruling, first reported by the Bangor Daily News, was issued last week.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2009/05/27/feds_end_prosecution_of_gop_organizer?mode=PF

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From Mark Crispin Miller:

Holder DROPS charges against GOP election-rigger ... but not those against Don Siegelman.

James Tobin ran the phone-jamming scheme in NH in 2002--the election
that John Sununu thereby "won." That also was the year that Saxby Chambliss
"won" in Georgia, Wayne Allard "won" in Colorado, and Norm Coleman "won"
in Minnesota (Paul Wellstone having perished in a small plane crash just days
before Election Day). That also was the year, moreover, when Don Siegelman,
who'd just won re-election as Alabama's governor, was stealthily un-re-elected
in the wee hours on Election Night.

So it was a very good election for the GOP, which, through such victories,
snatched back the Senate from the Democrats, who briefly ruled it after Sen.
James Jeffords had switched parties in the spring.

A real Attorney General would look into all of that, and start by mounting a
real probe of that phone-jamming operation in New Hampshire (which Jack
Abramoff had paid for with two checks from his client, the Choctaw Indians).

But this Attorney General, and this president, will not go near that scandal, or
lift a finger for Don Siegelman--or for Paul Minor, Wes Teel, Oliver Diaz
or any of the several hundred other Democrats nailed groundlessly by Karl
Rove's DoJ (which is, apparently, Karl Rove's Department still).

MCM

[robinlynne]

8. God damn it.

[Bozita]

9. Damn that Eric "Let Bygones Be Bygones" Holder!

I thought elections had consequences.

[Captain Hilts]

10. Moving forward....nt

[nichomachus]

11. But they will hound John Edwards to his grave. n/t

[Wapsie B]

12. An example needs to be made of someone like this.

Playing nice with these people will only encourage them all the more. It's like trying to make nice with the playground bully while he's kicking the crap outta you. He'll stop only when he gets a 2 x 4 upside the head.