Flash: 2002 phone jamming records lead to White House...

[kpete]

Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.


The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.

The national Republican Party, which paid millions in legal bills to defend Tobin, says the contacts involved routine election business and that it was "preposterous" to suggest the calls involved phone jamming.

The Justice Department has secured three convictions in the case but hasn't accused any White House or national Republican officials of wrongdoing, nor made any allegations suggesting party officials outside New Hampshire were involved. The phone records of calls to the White House were exhibits in Tobin's trial but prosecutors did not make them part of their case.

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[AllieB]

1. Yet another incidence of their collusion in stealing elections

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[saltpoint]

2. Shouldn't democracy be on the march in New Hampshire just like

it is in the Middle East?

Sure are a lot of mixed signals from the Bush folks on the subject.