One aspect of the e-mail inquiry has to be the RNC vote-caging e-mails and their role in other USA firing e-mails.
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Raging Caging: What the heck is vote caging, and why should we care?
By Dahlia Lithwick -- Jurisprudence: The law, lawyers, and the court.
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007, at 6:24 PM ET
http://www.slate.com/id/2167284/pagenum/all/#page_start... Monica Goodling referred several times to "vote caging" possibly done by Arkansas' soon to be ex-interim, never-confirmed U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin. ... liberal talk radio, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the blogosphere went nuts. ... Is vote caging the most underreported part of this U.S. attorneys scandal or the most over-hyped?
... "Vote caging, what's that?" we e-mailed each other at Slate. ............
Vote caging is an illegal trick to suppress minority voters ... The Republican National Committee reportedly stopped the practice following a consent decree in a 1986 case. Google the term and you'll quickly arrive at the Wizard of Oz of caging, Greg Palast, investigative reporter and author ...........
Palast supplies evidence linking Tim Griffin, then-research director for the RNC, to this caging plot; specifically, a series of confidential e-mails to Republican Party muckety-mucks with the suggestive heading "RE: caging." The e-mails were accidentally sent to a George Bush parody site. .......
.... once it became clear that he would undergo a hearing, why did Griffin sideline himself with the colorful observation that undergoing Senate confirmation would be "like volunteering to stand in front of a firing squad in the middle of a three-ring circus?" ...
I'd also like to hear from Karl and Harriet about why Griffin's elevation to the Arkansas job was so important, yet his confirmation so fraught. If Palast is right, Griffin and vote caging open the door to explaining the White House involvement in the U.S. attorneys purge. And the White House—not the Justice Department—has always been the least-understood part of this story. So, let's bake up some of those warm, crusty subpoenas. Last week was the first time most of us heard about vote caging. It shouldn't be the last.