Group Files FOIA For Findings On WH Involvement In Phone-Jamming Scandal

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Group files FOIA for DoJ findings on White House involvement in 'phone-jamming scandal'

RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday April 18, 2006

A Democratic group has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain all findings by the Department of Justice in the probe of White House involvement in New Hampshire's "phone jamming scandal," RAW STORY has found.

"Nearly four years after high-level Republican officials broke the law to prevent people from voting, we still don't know the answer to the question: how high does this go?," Senate Majority Project Executive Director Mike Gehrke said in a press release. "One thing is for certain, the Department of Justice does not investigate the White House after 'normal Election Day activity.'".

Last Tuesday, Robert Kelner, the Washington lawyer representing the Republican National Committee, told New Hampshire TV station WMUR-TV that "in regards to the White House calls, the Department of Justice had known about them for a long time, investigated those calls, and did not bring any charges."

" records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down," The Associated Press reported last week.

"There was enough evidence that the Justice Department saw fit to investigate the White House," SMP's Gehrke said in the press release. "If the investigation clears them, why not just release the findings? Why is it so hard to people tell the truth?"


Transcript of Senate Majority Project press release:

IF THE WHITE HOUSE PLAYED NO ROLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION SCANDAL, WHY DID THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATE THEM?

SMP files FOIA request for all findings of DOJ investigation of White House involvement in phone-jamming scandal

Washington—The Senate Majority Project announced today that it would file a Freedom of Information Act request for any findings from the Department of Justice's investigation of White House involvement in the 2002 New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal.

Senate Majority Project Executive Director Mike Gehrke said, "Nearly four years after high-level Republican officials broke the law to prevent people from voting, we still don't know the answer to the question: how high does this go? One thing is for certain, the Department of Justice does not investigate the White House after 'normal Election Day activity.'"

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[Ian David]

1. Much more important: Steroids in baseball and The War on Xmas n/t

[NoAmericanTaliban]

2. Not to mention the war against the Easter Bunny.

[sharp_stick]

3. That kind of fizzled

I only heard of one attack by a bunny on someone in a mall in Florida. Nowhere near the carnage needed by the right to continue a war on the bunny.

[Jane Austin]

5. Whaaaa??

You mean somebody's declared war on a Pagan symbol?

What's next? Outlawing the full moon? :)

[faithnotgreed]

4. kicking

[Wilms]

6. K&R n/t