Staggering -- BLOOMBERG WALKBACK?
*staggers*
I was hearing that The That One was getting cranky on the stump today. I had no idea…
From ACE at 06:06 PM:
Barack Obama’s campaign attorney today asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to add a probe into allegedly false Republican claims of voter fraud to the investigation into the firings of U.S. attorneys.
Republican voter-fraud accusations ``seek both to suppress the vote and to unduly influence investigations and prosecutions,’’ wrote Robert Bauer, general counsel for the Democratic presidential nominee.
JammieWearingFool @ 5:53 PM
Barack Obama’s campaign attorney today asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to add a probe into allegedly false Republican claims of voter fraud to the investigation into the firings of U.S. attorneys.
Republican voter-fraud accusations ``seek both to suppress the vote and to unduly influence investigations and prosecutions,’’ wrote Robert Bauer, general counsel for the Democratic presidential nominee. He made the statement in a letter to Mukasey and special prosecutor Nora Dannehy, who is looking into the nine U.S. attorney firings in 2006.
cite: “http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAYOYsAX8sQs&refer=home”
Which now reads:
Obama Lawyer Asks for Probe Into Vote-Fraud Claims (Update1)
By Jeff BlissOct. 17 (Bloomberg)—Barack Obama’s campaign asked the U.S. Justice Department to expand a special prosecutor’s investigation to include possible improprieties surrounding reports the FBI is looking into voter fraud in the presidential race.
Obama’s campaign attorney said the investigation should look into a leak to the news media that the FBI is probing allegations of voter registration fraud by a grassroots organization called ACORN. The group’s activities were denounced by Republican nominee John McCain in the Oct. 15 presidential debate.
Robert Bauer, general counsel to the Obama campaign, wrote to Attorney General Michael Mukasey a day after the Associated Press, citing unidentified law enforcement officials, reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating ACORN. The name is short for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
A special prosecutor appointed by Mukasey already is looking into whether improper political considerations influenced the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. At least one prosecutor was fired following Republican complaints that he didn’t aggressively pursue allegations of voter fraud against ACORN.
Bauer said the news leaks are part of a coordinated effort by McCain’s presidential campaign and Republicans. They are ``fomenting specious vote-fraud allegations and there are disturbing indications of official involvement or collusion,’’ Bauer said.
``It is apparent,’’ he wrote, that law enforcement officials are serving ``improper political objectives’’ that could inhibit voter participation in the Nov. 4 election. The aim is to ``suppress the vote and to unduly influence investigations and prosecutions,’’ Bauer wrote.
Mukasey appointed special prosecutor Nora Dannehy to look into the U.S. attorney firings in 2006.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jeff Bliss in Washington jbliss@bloomberg.net
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Last Updated: October 17, 2008 18:27 EDT
Is there something hinky goin’ on here, or am I just in need of coffee scotch?
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I wouldn’t ordinarily copy/paste an entire © article—I never do. But in this instance I had to to show what was different.
[are we gonna hafta screencap every danged cite from here on out? WTF?!?]
NB that “{{PERIOD}}” is an artifact of some sort - didn’t show up in TextEdit…
If you look at the slip
http://tinyurl.com/62tyye (pdf)
you find the Brunner decision was based on standing, and that the HAVA names the Attorney General as the only person who has enforcement responsibility.
http://tinyurl.com/5stngg
I would have predicted that AG Mikey would have wished to stay out of this altogether. Now, called out, will he do the right thing? Or simply allow the lameness of his duck to expire, not with a bang, but with a whimper?
.Posted by OregonGuy on 10/18/08 at 09:41 AM
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