PALAST: Conyers Closes In On Karl & His Rove-Bots

[kpete]

THE TEARS OF A CLONE
Conyers Closes in on Karl and his Rove-bots …

By Greg Palast
Special to The BRAD BLOG

Boo-hoo! I made Tim Griffin cry.

He cried. Then he lied.

.........

........ 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.

Unfortunately, many on his committee from both parties see the hearings as limited to the single issue of the firing of prosecutors. They want to scrutinize the elephant’s trunk but refuse to acknowledge it’s attached to an elephant: election rigging. Racially poisoned, direct-mail driven, computer implemented election rigging.

But Conyers may get there yet, to the issue of elections manipulation. I didn’t get that from the Chairman (too circumspect to let his future intensions slip out). I got it from the Big Bubba. When I ran into Ol’ Silver Eyes himself at an Air America soiree, Bill Clinton (man, he’s gotten thin!) told me, “When we really get going on these prosecutor hearings, when we really dig deep, we’re going to get right to the issue of voter suppression.”


much more at:
http://www.gregpalast.com/the-tears-of-a-clone/#more-1762

[rodeodance]

1. Bill assumes the committee will 'dig deep'??

[Javaman]

5. I don't think anyone has the balls to pull back the curtain. nt

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

2. Hmmmm,..."(WHEN) we really dig deep,..."

Does that mean "digging deep" is a sure thing?

Garsh,...I hope so!!! :bounce:

[Peace Patriot]

3. Hm-m. The Clintons must have realized that the issue of election fraud has become

"resonant." Focus groups? Bill's antennae?

I'll be impressed when Hillary says that corporations (especially rightwing Bushite corporations) shouldn't be "counting" all our votes with secret code.

And you want to know an odd fact? I don't think it's for love of democracy, but it does happen to be true that Hillary and Sen. Schumer (the two NY Senators) were the ONLY TWO--yes, the *ONLY* *TWO*--Senate votes against the "Help America Vote for Bush Act" of 2002 (electronic vote rigging fast-tracked across the country). Diebold/ES&S is now trying to get its talons into New York, which has heretofore held out for their old "gray ladies"--virtually unriggable lever voting machines. It would be intersting to know if Hillary sides with the resistance.

[april]

4. i would love for this to be the Big Blow..nm

[mopinko]

6. hillary can't get elected unless

they clean out the rats nest. i am surprised to hear the big dog talking like this, but there is nothing quite like enlightened self-interest. maybe there is a shred of hope still.

[Gregorian]

7. Pardon Libby. Go ahead. We're coming to get you, Bush!

Too many crimes to go undiscovered. A half dozen serious crimes, at least.

[ClassWarrior]

8. Interesting...

Go Palast.

NGU.

[proud patriot]

9. Keep holding their feet to the fire Greg

:woohoo:

[Decruiter]

10. Palast is the best of the best!! K&R n/t

[Disturbed]

11. The Busholini Regime is smells like an open sewer.

The Investigators will need Bio suits to slog through the muck.

[MiniMe]

12. Repuke question: Mr Rove, you just had the security of the nation

at heart, didn't you? You didn't mean to do anything wrong, you were just trying to get your candidate elected. In fact, you were so hounded by Patrick Fitzgerald during the Valerie Plame investigation that you couldn't think straight. Why are we interviewing this fine man when we haven't brought Valerie Plame before this committee? Yada Yada Yada speech about Plame.