Looks like Snow job doesn't talk to Bartlett : MR. SNOW: Started with voter fraud?

[maddezmom]

Q Tony, with this ever-growing story -- I mean, originally it started out with voter fraud. Is that still the impetus for all of this?

MR. SNOW: Started with voter fraud?

Q Yes, looking at -- oh, you don't know what happened?

MR. SNOW: There are -- there have been a number of concerns that were expressed at the Department of Justice, and that is going to be the subject of hearings on Capitol Hill.

Q No, no, no, but did it start with the investigation into the fact that voter fraud was not investigated fully by many of the prosecutors?

MR. SNOW: Again, what -- no, what you're referring to is a single case. This kind of forensics is precisely the sort of thing that Congress will have an opportunity to investigate.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070321-4.html

White House Cites Lax Voter-Fraud Investigations in U.S. Attorneys' Firings

By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 14, 2007; Page A06

White House officials, in providing new explanations of how and why several U.S. attorneys were fired in December, have said that President Bush mentioned to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales in October that he had heard complaints from Congress that some federal prosecutors were lax in pursuing voter fraud.

In attributing the firings at least partly to an inattentiveness to voter fraud, the White House is invoking a contention that has gained prominence in Republican circles starting with the 2000 presidential election, as both political parties have become aggressive in trying to leverage election law into Election Day victories.

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Glimpses of the role those charges and countercharges have played in firings of at least some of the U.S. attorneys have begun to emerge in recent days. Yesterday, Dan Bartlett, counselor to the president, told reporters accompanying Bush in Mexico that "over the course of several years, we have received complaints about U.S. attorneys, particularly when it comes to election-fraud cases." Bartlett said those complaints have stemmed from New Mexico, where U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias was fired, as well as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301725.html

[wake.up.america]

1. The Keystone Cops as crooks

[annabanana]

2. snarf!. . . A "talking point" that never flew.

These guys are just plain funny sometimes.