Coulter Cleared of Vote Fraud, but FBI Agent's Intrusion on Her Behalf Is Being Investigated

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Editor & Publisher

Ann Coulter has been cleared of allegations that she falsified her Florida voter registration and voted illegally -- after a high-level FBI agent made unsolicited phone calls to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office to vouch for the conservative pundit, according to a Friday piece by Jose Lambiet of the Palm Beach Post.

Lambiet wrote that when the FBI heard about the calls, it immediately launched an internal review of Supervisory Special Agent Jim Fitzgerald's involvement. "We're looking into it," FBI spokeswoman Ann Todd told Lambiet, while declining to say whether Fitzgerald acted on his own behalf, as an FBI agent, or on someone else's orders.

"This doesn't bode well in terms of the public's impression that celebrities receive preferential treatment," said Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson. "I'm curious about how anyone can justify the FBI's intrusion."

Coulter, the controversial author and Universal Press Syndicate columnist, allegedly cast her ballot in the wrong precinct in a February 2006 Palm Beach election after registering with an address that wasn't hers.


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[flowomo]

1. link to original article cited by E&P:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/05/11/m2a_jose_col_0511.html

[Ganja Ninja]

2. "celebrities receive preferential treatment"

More like Republican shills are above the law.

[harun]

8. That's the correct translation as far as I can tell ;-)

[MikMouse]

3. Republicans and Thier Shills Are Not Above the Law

They ARE the law.

[Richard Steele]

4. I'm wondering how she could even be "cleared".

It's a FACT that she voted in a precinct where she didn't live;
it's a FACT that she registered with a false address.

:wtf:

[slackmaster]

5. So there is no chance she will share a jail cell with Paris Hilton

:argh:

[lligrd]

6. Why Was She Cleared???

Stalker, my ass! Who the hell would stalk her? And since when does being stalke allow you to lie on government documents?

[underpants]

13. Come on I think it pretty clear-she was soused

booozed up
drunk
in deep

whatever you want to call it she was hammered and she voted in the wrong place. This isn't an excuse mind you but I would be willing to bet that that was the deal.

[orleans]

7. what bullshit. hope that fbi asshole

"Supervisory Special Agent Jim Fitzgerald, of the FBI Academy's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Va."

and the idiot from the palm beach sheriff's office: First-year Detective Kristine Villa

MANAGED TO AT LEAST GET A SIGNED COPY OF HER BOOK SINCE THEY WENT TO ALL THAT TROUBLE OF DROPPING THIS CASE.

[maxrandb]

9. Maybe the Behavioral Analysis folks at the FBI

need AnnThrax. Think of the insight they can get on the behavior of psychopaths just by studying Ann.

She's a virtual gold-mine of mental health issues; psychosis, schizophrenia, delusions of adequacy, pathological, anger, social adjustment disorder, gender confusion, anorexia, sexual dis-function, inbreeding, paranoia... the list goes' on and on.

Maybe the FBI needs to study her to learn the behavior of serial killers and pedophiles.

[alfredo]

14. And she might be at risk for throat cancer.

[pdefalla]

10. Need to dig deeper

Let's get Schlozman on this, he's death on voter fraud. Just tell him she was signed up by ACORN.

[Patsy Stone]

11. KARL!!!

Look! Voter FRAUD!!!

:eyes:

[bluestateguy]

12. Breaking: It's legal to cast your ballot in any precinct you want; the FBI said so

So now any American who wants to vote in whatever prcinct they please is legally free to do so.

The FBI said so.

[Cass]

15. Un-freaking-real. So voting wherever the f* you please is A-ok

if you're connected. What a bunch of bullsh*. The stalker excuse sounds like a pile of malarkey to me. Much bigger celebrities than this dumb-ass manage to vote without having to resort to f*ing voter fraud to elude stalkers. Give me a break.

Why don't they just be honest about it - she called in a favor from some dude at the FBI that she knows. Political connections were called into play, plain and simple.


:eyes:

[struggle4progress]

16. Why did the FBI intervene in a local voting fraud case?