http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/jul/13/071308772.htmlMANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - A judge gave state Democrats the go-ahead Thursday to question high-ranking Republicans in a civil suit over the jamming of Democrats' phones on Election Day 2002.
Three former GOP officials have already been sentenced in the phone jamming scheme. In the civil suit, state Democrats want to know who knew about the plan.
They point to a record of phone calls that show national GOP official James Tobin, one of those convicted, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.
The national Republican Party, which paid millions to defend Tobin, said the contacts involved routine election business and that it was "preposterous" to suggest they involved phone jamming.
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