Fired U.S. prosecutor refused to probe voter fraud because there was "no evidence."

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17552880/site/newsweek/page/2

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Another fired prosecutor, John McKay, of Seattle, tells NEWSWEEK that local Republicans pressured him to launch a criminal probe of voting fraud that would tilt a deadlocked Washington governor's race. "They wanted me to go out and start arresting people," he says, adding that he refused to do so because there was "no evidence." After McKay was fired in December, he says he also got a phone call from a "clearly nervous" Elston asking if he intended to go public: "He was offering me a deal: you stay silent and the attorney general won't say anything bad about you." (Elston says he "can't imagine" how McKay got that impression. The call was meant to reassure McKay that the A.G. would not detail the reasons for the firings.)

[madokie]

1. Isn't that blackmail and isn't that illegal

oh forgot this is bush*world

[sutz12]

2. Wow......actually that's an "Oh shit" moment.... nt

[lonestarnot]

3. hmmmf

He should have taped the call.

[w4rma]

14. Can't tape conversations, within America, without both parties' consent.

A tape would be unusable in court.

[lonestarnot]

15. Bullshit!

[ck4829]

4. K&R

[Supersedeas]

5. No evidence -- Al Gonzo and KKKarl want you to proceed any damned ways

[POAS]

6. That's like Tony Soprano asking

a potential "rat", "How's your family?"

Of course Tony is just being friendly, right?

[Catherine Vincent]

7. This misadministration is so corrupt it's pathetic!

[Turbineguy]

8. Poor Rethugs

"It's gettin so you can't make an honest dollar on a fixed fight. If you can't trust the fix, what can you trust?"

[stillcool]

9. "Voter Fraud" vs. "Election Fraud"...

there may indeed have been 'no evidence'.

[spinbaby]

10. K&R

Very important.

[tanyev]

11. Elston is shocked, shocked that McKay got that impression.

[spinbaby]

12. Kick to the top again

:kick:

A very important story, folks.

[fed-up]

13. kick/rec n/t