CBS, CNN capture video of Ohio attorney subpoena served on Karl Rove

[mod mom]

October 27th, 2010 3:43 pm ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - A federal subpoena, issued by Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck and sanctioned by the Office of Ohio Secretary of State, was served last Sunday in Washington to Karl Rove on his way to an appearance on the CBS news program Face the Nation.

CNN, CBS capture video of subpoena servicing to Karl Rove

The process service for the subpoena reported that CBS and CNN camera men "captured video" of the event.

In an article written by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman and published at OpEdNews.com, the federal subpoena orders Rove to testify in deposition about his role in the alleged theft of the 2004 election, and to discuss his orchestration of tens of millions of corporate/billionaire dollars in this year's General Elections on November 2.

Contacted Wednesday to comment, Arnebeck, a Columbus attorney with a long history of involvement in election related cases, notably as plaintiff attorney in the on-going King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit that Fitrakis and Wasserman have used to try to question Rove on an election they say the Republican campaign expert stole for George W. Bush in 2004, said of his role in the 2010 election cycle, "Rove has asked for all this money on behalf of the Republican candidates’ campaigns. Under Citizens United that still constitutes a gift to those campaigns and is still subject to limits and prohibitions of campaign finance laws. Camouflaging the gifts by running them through nice sounding non-profit corporations is nothing but the latest form of money-laundering.”

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http://www.examiner.com/government-in-columbus/cbs-cnn-capture-video-of-ohio-attorney-subpoena-served-on-karl-rove

Thank you Cliff for not giving up!

[Botany]

1. The biggest story that has never been told, Ohio 2004

:hi:

[Fly by night]

7. Unfortunately, the story has been told (and re-told). It just hasn't made a difference.

Two documentaries in particular have done an excellent, comprehensive job of detailing the Ohio theft (which was only the tip of the 2004 election theft ice-shelf). If you haven't yet seen them, I would highly recommend "UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections" (by my friend David Earnhardt) and "Stealing America, Vote by Vote" (by my friend Dorothy Fadiman).

I appreciate my friends Cliff Arnebeck, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman for their dogged and determined efforts to wake this country up. (All of them are featured prominently in the documentaries mentioned above.) Why on earth the Holt bill (with over 200 co-sponsors) got no traction after the Dems won control of Congress remains the biggest mystery (as does the opposition to that bill by self-proclaimed election integrity supporters.)

[Botany]

8. The fact that in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, OHIO) 2 people were ..

.... indicted, arrested, put on trial, and convected for rigging the 2004
vote recount and nothing happened says all I need to know.

[EFerrari]

12. There is also a hearing up at CSPAN with Conyers presiding.

Voting Irregularities In Ohio
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/184728-1

And Greg Palast's "The Election Files" is also very good.

[Fly by night]

13. Yes, the Conyers hearing was excellent. It is featured inboth documentaries I mentioned.

Thanks for the heads-up on the Palast film. I haven't seen that one yet.

[xchrom]

2. Awesome! Recommend. Nt

[Ineeda]

3. K&R but WARNING:

The video capture is not on the link. Do not click the link unless you want to hear over 13 minutes of KKKarl's crap. What a waste of oxygen this as*hole is.

[jotsy]

4. There was no summons served in the video linked to here.

Just thirteen and a half minutes of how work 'em over Rover sees the election playing out.

[KharmaTrain]

5. He's Got Some Rough Times Ahead...

Congrats on bringing this war criminal one step closer to having to face the Justice system he's long tried to job. I'm with Joe Wilson in hoping to see the day when he's frogmarched out of an arraignment.

The Rover has burnt a bunch of bridges recently...his worst nightmare is a large teabag win on Election night. He doesn't and can't control these people and challenge his role as being the "kingmaker". His attacks on O'Donnell and now Mooselini are the opening salvos in what will be a brusing 2012 primary season. If the baggers come out looking strong, he'll have to find a way to deal with thsee people who don't look back on the booosh era with the same "nostalgia" Karl does. It'll be interesting to see how many of these "strict constitutionalists" will be bought out and by whom. It won't take long to find out. Should the baggers do poorly then Rove will be the scapegoat...so he's tap dancing as fast as he can.

Here's hoping there's something that can be found in discovery...that if he perjurs himself again (like he did in his original Plame testimony) he doesn't get to skate this time.

Thank goodness for those who still have principals rather than doing the politcally expedient thing...

[Bitwit1234]

6. I just wish someone could successfully explain this and why

he is allowed to be getting away with it. First....he has a non-profit organization?? and second he is donating the money donated to it, to political candidates. How can he do this. why does he have a non-profit organization that can do this. I was under the impression that non-profit could donate or take care of charities only. Republican candidates are not charity. He knows the Democrats will sit on their hands as always he can get away with it.

[Blue Owl]

9. Trust those electronic voting machines when Karl Rove is behind the curtain?

HELL no. Throw that fuck in jail. NOW.

[felix_numinous]

10. K+R

[Qutzupalotl]

11. This thread is useless without the video.

:)
Hell, I'd pay to see it.

[malaise]

14. The last time someone in Ohio was served his aircraft

crashed and that was that.
Cliff knows that Rove was involved.

http://michael-connell-anomaly-karl-rove.blogspot.com/
<snip>
CLIFF ARNEBACK: We had a news conference July 17th of this year, in which we indicated that we were intending to file a racketeering claim against Karl Rove as the principal perpetrator of a racketeering conspiracy, and we identified Mike Connell as a key witness in that case. And within a few days of that news conference, we got a tip from someone identifying himself as within the McCain campaign, and he reported that Rove had threatened Mike Connell, that if he didn't take the fall and did not implicate Rove in any of the problems in 2004 Ohio, that his wife would be prosecuted. So we're working with a Republican consultant or expert who made some inquiries within his circles, and who came back and said, he believed that the threat was credible. On that basis, we advised the attorney general of the United States, the Ohio attorney general and the federal court chambers that a witness that we'd identified, we had reason to believe was being threatened and so we put the alarm bell out there. The tips continued and the last one indicated that Connell was in danger from Rove. And it was at that point, we were successful in getting a federal court to order Mr. Connell to appear in federal court and then also to submit to a deposition. And all that took place about a month before this crash.

[bobbolink]

15. Could we please see this for reals? PLEEZ!

[ProfessionalLeftist]

16. Rover lies really well. However,

...the guy never should have dropped out of school because he needs the math, as well as the logistical skills but seems to be missing them. The Chamber of Commerce and Rove's group are spending money from undisclosed sources, and the Chamber is outspending every outside group to date. Look: here's a pretty picture!



<...>

"Four unions alone will have, according to their own announcements, spent $220 million in money on elections this year," Rove said.

"We know who they are," Schieffer said, pointing out that labor unions must disclose where their funding comes from.

"No, you don't, Bob," Rove replied, and claimed that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) was not being forthcoming.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that AFSCME may spend a total of $87.5 million on the elections - including TV ads, phone calls, mailings and help with Democrats' get-out-the-vote efforts.

AFSCME was then accused by the right that, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, it was not willing to disclose the source of donations.

(AFSCME spokesman Chris Policano told the Huffington Post, "(T)here's no mystery about who we are or where the money comes from. Unlike the Chamber of Commerce, we play by clear rules of transparency - we report our spending to the Department of Labor, and every month we provide the FEC a list of our members who contribute more than $200 for political activities." And as Time magazine points out, it is no secret whose money is going into the union's coffers to support these activities: the dues of its members.)

Schieffer pointed out that Republicans were getting twice as much money from outside groups as Democrats.

"I would like to have a different system, but we have the system we have," Rove said. "And if liberals do it and nobody complains about it, it strikes me as somewhat hypocritical when conservatives adopt their strategies and follow their models and conservatives get criticized by the President of the United States by name."

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said that Rove wasn't interested at all in making campaign donations more transparent.

"Karl Rove just told you he did not want the voters to know who was spending these tens of millions of dollars essentially to buy a Congress that does the bidding of special interests around the country," Van Hollen told Schieffer.

He pointed out that the Democrats had sponsored a bill called the Disclose Act that would have required corporations to more fully disclose political donations.

"Every Republican but one voted against it," Van Hollen said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/24/ftn/main6987206.shtml?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea

[pgodbold]

17. It's a shame that CNN and CBS deleted their captured video. Anyway it's nowhere to be found.

[Kurovski]

18. K&R. (nt)